The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-26
CASTRO SAILED
FOR NEW YORK
MATTER OF PREVENTING VENE.
ZUELAN EXILE LANDING is PRO.
BLEM FOR OFFICIALS.

| Washington, Dec. 25.-Another in
tcrcsung chapter in the career u
C'priano Castro to.iatr president an
d'oia or of Nr.elaela, Int for 10,
past four years an exile in Europe
] promises to be written next week
= The state department was advised
early today in a dispatch from Johi
Ball Osborne, American consul a
Havre, that Castro sailed from tha
French Lort ca Il @ French line steam
ship la Tcuraine under the name oi
Ruiz, at o'clock last Saturday night
Dec. 21 for New York.
Byeond this statement no further
information was obtainable at the
state department and no official there
would discuss on any form the ques-
tion that will probably confront this
government when the Touraine reach
| eR New York, probably Sunday morn
! lug. Whether Castro will be permit.
ted to land on American soil is
matter that will be discussed during
the next few days and before Sunday
line of action is expected to be
solved
II was intimated in semi.offficial
circles at TIE state department this
afternon that the matter 'is up to the
department of commerce and labor to
say whether Castro can land" Sec
tary Nagel and immigration officials
said tonight that they have not been
notified of the probable arrival of
Castro and that the question of allow
ing him to land has not officially been
raised
The departure Of Castro for the Unit
ted States raises for the third time
in almost as many years the question
as to what steps, if any. can be taken
to thwart the purposes Of Castro. In
1909 France, Holland and other Euro.
pean powers. at the urgent request Of
the American state department, play
Cd clever diplomatic game OF battle
dore and shuttlecock with the deposed
dictator by refusing to allow him TO
land at Curacao. Trinidad, Martinique
and other West Indian islands. Castro
returned to Paris in April, 1916, filled
with bitterness toward the United
States. against which he rallied with
declarations that the American gov
ernment would regret the precedent
set in his case. Again in the summer
OF 1911, the state department was
much concerned with reports that Cas-
tro had landed on Venezuelan soil at
the head of 1000 men with the back
ing of 35,000,000 francs deposited at
the Credit Lyonnaise, Paris, and
steps We're taken to Illustrate his al !
legged revolutionary projects. Pres !
ident Taft and Secretary Knox had !
several conferences over the situation |
at that time and correspondence was
opened between Washington, London,
Paris. Eerlin Rome and The Hague
regarding measures to be taken should
it become necessary to try to prevent
Castro from landing on the shores OF
the Caribbean. The earth apparently
opened up and again swallowed Castro
toward the end of July, 1911, when
Iohn w. Garrett. American minister
1t Caracas. cabled that he could get
10 confirmation of Castros supposed
'ctun to his native land.
Place Of Retirement.
Last July information was received
jy adherents of Castro in this coun-
ry indicating that Castro was in the
'anary Islands preparing to make an p
other descent upon Venezuela In
he same month dispatches from Mad ,
id stated that the Spanish govern
olent had finally consented to ALLOW
Castro to settle at Santander, Spain.
where he had an eye on a fine piece
If property suitable for his retire ,
nent" Ii was asserted at that time
hat Castro. who had become almost !
a man without country" having
been buffeted about Europe and bar
'ed from the West Indies, had agreed
Il. his part. to abstain from political
ntrigues or conspiracies, but that
nevertheless he was being closely
watched by several nations.
The prospective arrival of Castro
r New York on the Touraine puts
he problem of the status of the eX'
led "mln of IRON before the state
department. in more acute and delicate