New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
VENEZUELA UNEASY
At CASTRO'S LANDING
Ex-PreSident'S Followers May
Be 1,000-TTocps Sent to
Gulf of Maracaiho.
OFFICIAL REPORTED KILLED
President Of State Of Zulia,
Which Was Man of Destiny
Objective from Castilletas,
Believed Victim Of Bomb.

Willemstad, CURACAO, July S.-The
Venezuelan government has positive
news that Cipriano Castro. the exiled
President Of Venezuela, effected a land
ing at Castilletas Point. on the west
coast of the Goajira Peninsula, which
forms the northwestern extremity Of
Colombia Castilletas Point is within
about twenty-five miles of the Noncz-
uelan frontier, formed by the western
boundary of the state Of Zulia.
Rumors reached here this afternoon
that Gumersindo Mendez, President Of
the State of Zulia, had been killed by Il
bomb.
Castro is said TO have following of
about thousand men. The eX-Presi-
dents partisans here have no official
notification of his having reached Venez-
uela, but they are convinced he has
accomplished this. schooner which
has arrived here from Maracaibo brings
news Of threatened revolt at San Car
los, which was betrayed TO the author
ities. Many of those concerned in the
rising were made prisoners.
Caracas, July S.--The government has
not yet been able to confirm that
Cipriano Castro has landed in Venezuela
or in neighborhing territory It is not
considered possible that the ex-Presi-
in Venezuela, has been able to set any
considerable number Of men behind him.
Nevertheless. troops have already been
dispatched to the Gulf Of Maracaibo on
board a warshlp.
La Guaira, July S-President Gomez
and the members Of his Cabinet took
breakfast aboard the United States ar
rnored cruiser North Carolina to-day.
After the breakfast. reception was
given to guests from Caracas.
The warship will sail tomorrow for
the United States with Special Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Thomas c. Dawson on
board.
How different a proposition is General
Cipriano Castro with his feet on Venez-
back from the solitary plotter on the
other side Of the Atlantic, With the Eu-
ropsan powers opposed TO his return 70
his native country. IS readily understood
,u the nght Of his earlier bold and TIL
umuhart career. If il is true that the
self-stvled IMAM Of destiny" Is again IN
Venezuela he must be dealt with by the
forgotten that he once overturned th7
,,overnmen. with IN army that original
" numbered oniv twenty-three men,
II was on May %. 1899, that Castro
then a rancher in Los Andes took OF
fence at the governor Of the province
and General Andrade, President OF the
renublic. and determined TO unseat them
both. He set out at the head o. MS
handful Of ranchmen, followed by the
4eers Of the populace. Within month
he had an army Of several thousand
men and captured Valencia, the second
CITY Of the country. Advancing on the
oapital, he defeated Andrade's troops,
and when he reached Caracas the Presi-
h dent had fed.
For ten years Castro ruled Venezuela
" with an iron hand. and il was not until
broken in health he went TO Europe that
his enemies mustered the strength to de-
pose him. He has boosted that he would
return TO Venezuela and resume power.
The United States government and
other governments made it their bust
ness to prevent his return If possible,
but he appears to have outwitted the
international watchers. In January last
he was reported in the Canary Islands.
On subsequent dates he was said to be
Mt Los Palmas with his family, at Lis
bon and at Gibraltar Last month
washington heard that he was aboard
the steamer Consul Grostuck, which the
Haytian government had purchased
after the cruiser had been dismantled
by the Italian navy. The Grostuck ar
rived at Port-de-Paix, Hayti and after
q brief stop for repairs proceeded TO
Port-au-Prince. Her crew said they
knew nothing Of Castro. His move
ments for, several weeks are matter Of
conjecture, as is the extent Of the re-
sources at his command According to
one account, he has $4,000, 900 francs
In the Credit Lyonnais, Paris.