Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-22
PLOT TO KILL GOMEZ NO IMPLIED POWERS
Castro Accused of Compicity District Commissioners Crea
in Attempted Murder lures of Statute.
MAINE ON PEACE MISSION COURT OF APPEALS RULES
Probably Appellate Tribunal Reverses Jud
Make Terms ment in Land Case
STILL DANGER OF CIVIL WAR PROCEDURE BE CHANGED
Be o Gen. Harries Not Liable in DAM
Our Interests ages land Drowning.
MAINE ON PEACE MISSION
Gomez Government Probably Ready
to Make Terms.
STILL DANGER OF CIVIL WAR
In That Event American Battleships
Will Be on Hand to Protect
Our Interests.

CARACAS. Venezuela, Monday. De-
cember 22.-The downfall of President
Castro in Venezuela was completed
Saturday last with the Illustration of
desperate plot to assassinate Juan
Vicente Gomez, the acting president of
the republic.
Secret cipher cablegrams have passed
between President Castro, in Berlin and
his agents here since the popular anti
Castro demonstration Of December d3
and IA. !.
4 prominent lawyer has filed an accusa-
ton in the high federal court charging
President Castro with completely in the
attempted assassination, and proposing
his Impeachment.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Friday, De-
cember Is. via Ponce, Porto Rico, De-
cember .:.-There has been no repe-
tition in this city of the anti-Castro
demonstrations Of December Is and Il,
but the enforced resignation of the
Castro cabinet, which occurred yester-
day. is regarded as going far toward
Venezuela. The fall of the cabinet is a
logical outcome OF the fact that Acting
President Gomez permitted the anti
Castro demonstrations in Caracas the
early part Of this week.
The change OF ministry was effected
and made known only after the arrival
in the capital of 1.5OO soldiers from the
interior who are loyal to Gomez
There fS much military activity every-
where. and troops are being recruited
and armed with energy, in the belief that
the men In the interior loyal to Castro
will light.
The impression prevails in diplomatic
circles that the action Of the United
States IN sending warships to Venezuela
In the pending crisis is the initiation Of
movements looking to the re-establish-
meue O friendly relations between the
two governments. This impression is
predicsted on recent developments in the
South American republic indicating the
possible overthrow Of the Castro admin
istrati0n.
1t is freely predicted that rapproche-
ment will be accomplished through either
the reformed government headed by Vice
President Gomez. from the cabinet OF
which the Castro element is admittedly
absent, or through an entirely new ad-
ministration.
The absence Of fdiplomatic representa- ton
on the part of the United States in Vene-
zuela has kept it from being fully in
formed of recent political developments
in that quarter. and it has had to rely in a
measure on the press dispatches and such
information may have been received
from foreign sources. Vice President
Gomez's reported disapproval of the for
e,n policy OF the Castro administration,
especially as regards the United States
and Venezuela, is an important factor in
the settlement of existing troubles.
Week to Make Journey.
1t will take the battleship Maine a week
TO reach Venezuela. 1t is not denied that
that is her destination nor is 1t admitted
Studied reticence obtains as to her mission
AZ Well as to the movements of the gum
boats Dolphin and the cruiser Des Mo:nes
now in Haitian waters. and which
a dispatch from Port au Prince says are
going to Curacao. The movements of
these vessels are not posted at the Navy
Department today. and all applications fl r
informal ton as to their destination are
referred to the State Department. With
these vessels in or near the Venezuelan
coast the United States will be fully pre-
pared for any eyentuality, and can easily
establish prompt communication with
Venezuelan ports, and also with the State
Department
All information in possession of the gov
ernment regarding the situation in Vene-
Zueia is being withheld from the public
as necessary for the pubic interests.