Venezuela.

Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1903, Page 2

Venezuela.

President Castro resigned his office, after delievering his Presidential address in Congress. Bands of Indiana established a reign of terror in Caracas, at miCarime (mid-Lent) They paraded the boulevards with revolvers, knives and knuckle-dusters. Women were brutally thrown down, and a number of them injured—one fatally. Nine hundred and sixty three arrests have been made.

The Venezuelan Congress refused to accept the resignation of General Castro, and requested him to reconsider the matter, but he refused" to do so. * The New York correspondent or “The Times” says the resignation is a complete surprise to everybody including Mr Hay, American Secretary of State. Nobody supposes (says the correspondent) that the resignation is in good faith, except on the theory that General Castro has amassed all the plunder he requires. Beuter’s Washington correaponstates that Venezuelan leaders represented to General Castro months ago that his resignation would enable Venezuelans to present a solid front in controversies with the Powers. The announcement of the resignation, the correspondent says, is the result of a secret agreement that General Castro should relinquish office pending an adjustment ment by the Powers of matters in connection with the question of indemnity for the ; recent troubles, and that he will be re-elected later on.