VENEZUELA TROUBLE

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 691, 10 December 1902, Page 2

VENEZUELA TROUBLE

THL ULTIMATUM FROM GEU MANY AX!' ENGLAND.

By Telegraph-—Press Awociation—Ccpyrigh

New York. Dee. 9. Tiie members of the Foreign Legations have left Caracas. Tory i-mbarkid on warship* -it LaGiuyia. Germany claims from Yew. tula immediate payment of one lui.iion seven hundred thousand bu.iva.v-. this >um representing the losses to German subjects the civil war up to 19'A). ami b auiuii a satisf ivtury guar autee for payment of additional claims totalling three million bolivaivs. arising out ot tlie recent civil war: also the set •.lenient of other claims, especially connected with the German Yeue/uolau railwav.

The authorities at Washington ate pleased that Great lb Lain is acting with Germany in the demand for a settlement of the claims, and regards Great Britain's action as a guarantee that the Monroe doctrine will not be wiring'd. Louden. Dee. 0.

In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour said that Yenc/uela for the past two. years had unjustifiably interfered with the liberty and property of British subjects, and refused to settle large claims. All efforts to obtain an amicable arrange meet had been unavailing. Many representations made remain unnoticed. An ultimatum had been presented in conjunction with Germany. If the outcome of the ultimatum was unsatisfactory, it was intended to enforce the demands.