Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09
Former President of Venezuela
Keeps Officials on Jump.
C0NCEALS WHEREABOUTS
Government Unable to Secure In.
formation Of His Landing.
MAY NOW BE IN COLOMBIA
Report That He Disembarked on
Goajira Islands-Troops
Are Sent There.

WlLLEMSTADT. July s.--Castro's fol-
lowers in Curacao have no official not-
hcation OF his having reached Venezuela.
but they are convinced that he has ac-
compllshed this. A schooner which has
arrived from Maracaibo brings news 81
threatened revolt at San Carlos. which
was betrayed TO the authorities Many
of those concerned In the rising were
made prisoners.
CARACAS. Venezuela. July S.-The gov
eminent has not yet been able to CONFIRM
that Cipriano Castro has landed in Ven
ezuela or in neighboring territory. II Is
not considered possible that the ex-presi-
dent. even IL he has secured a foothold
in Venezuela. has been able to get any
considerable number OF men behind him.
Nevertheless. troops have already been
dispatched to tho Gulf OF Maracaibo.
Castro Is reported TO have made his land
ing on the Goajira peninsula Colombia,
which forms the western headland OF the
Gulf OF Maracaibo.
No Longer Solitary Plotter.
How different a proposition is Gen.
Cipriano Castro with his feet on yene-
zuelan soil and a thousand men at his
back from the solitary plotter in Europe
until recently supposed to have been iso-
lated by common consent of the powers
opposed to his return to the country from
which he was an exile is readily under
stood I'm the light OF his earlier bold and
triumphant career. If it is true that the
self-Styled man OF destiny is again in
Venezuela he must be dealt with by Ven
ezuelans themselves, who have not forgot
ten that he once overturned the govern
ment with an army that originally num-
bered but twenty-three men.
1t was May .3. 1899 that Castro. then
a rancher in Los Andes. took offense at
the governor of the province and Gen.
Andrade, president Of the republic, and
determined 10 unSeat them both. He set
out at the head of his handful OF rsnch-
men, followed by the jeers Of the popu-
lace. Within a month he had an army Of
several thousand men and captur1d Va
lencia. the second city OF the country.
Advancing on the capital. he defeated
Andrade troops. and when he reached
Caracas the president had fled.
Rule for Ten Years.
For ten years Castro ruled Venezuela
with an iron hand, and ii was not until
broken in health he went to Europe that
his enemies mustered strength to deposs
him. He has boosted that he would re-
The United States government and other
governments made II their business To
prevent his return. IL possible. but he
appears to have outwitted the fnterna-
uonal watchers.
In January last he was reported In the
Canary Islands. On subsequent dates he
was said 70 be at Los Palmas. with his
family at Lisbon and at Gibraltar. Last
month Washington heard that he was
aboard the steamer Consul Grostuch.
which the Haitian government had pur-
chased after the cruiser had been dis
mantled by the American navy.
Could Not Be Located.
The Grostuck arrived at Port de PAX.
Haiti and after q brief stop for repairs
proceeded to Port au Prince. Her crew
said they knew nothing Of Castro. and
he could not be located. His movements
for several weeks are a matter OF con-
lecture, as is the extent Of the resources
at his command.
A dispatch received al the State Depart
ment at Washington yesterday from Ca
racas confirmed the rumOr that Castro
had landed at Castilletas point. on the
Goajira peninsula, in Colombian territory
and within striking distance Of the coun-
try Of which. according to today's dis
patches. he has already begun an inva-