PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS,
QUESTION OF PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.
A VENEZUELAN GUARANTEE
(Received February Bth, 4.34 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 7. . Mr Bowen declined to yield on the 20 per cent, proposal. Sir Michael Herbert, British Minister at Washington, representing the blockading Powers, applied to President Roosevelt to arbitrate on that point, but without success. The question of preferential treatment will, therefore, be transferred to the Hague Court of Arbitration as soon as the protocol ie signed. Mr Bowen is prepared to pay each blockading Power £5500 as a first instalment of the payment for, personal injury to their respective eubjecte, in order to 'secure the raising of the blockade.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11503, 9 February 1903, Page 5
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108PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS, Press, Volume LX, Issue 11503, 9 February 1903, Page 5
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