THE VENEZUELAN CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 84, 9 February 1903, Page 2

THE VENEZUELAN CRISIS.

GERMAN IRRITATIOH. ru rwua association, Berlin, February 6. Several German newspapers oondenui Baron Sternbergh's ooroplisnoe with America instead of repelling tbe inequations and attacks ef the America* Press. One newspaper complains that America's insoleaoe has reached an iiabesr "▼ able pitch. One newapapar declares that Mr Bowen's impudence equate that ef President Oastro, and remind* Prseident Roosevelt of tbe c imperative . strength of the fl«ets of Amerioa and the Aiiie*. PREFBRWIfTiAL OLAIIfd REFERRED TO HAGUE TiiIBONAL. SOL&TIUM FOR PERSONAL IKJURMB. Received 8, 4.34 pa. New Yore, February 7. Mr Bo wen baa declined te yeild oa the twenty per cent, propoeal. Mr Herbert, British Minister, aa representing the blockadeia, vainly ap* plied to president Roosevelt to arbitrate en tbat point, so tbe question of preferential treatment will therefore be transferred to tbe Hague taibunaL Aa soon aa the protocol is cigned, Mr Bo wen is prepared to pay each cf tba blockaders £5500, aa a first iutal. ment of the payment for personal injury sustained by their resptetiv* 1 subjects, so as to secure the raising of the blockade. > BOLE ARBITRATOR HU3OEBTH). Received 0,1.9 a.m. New Yobe, February 8. Herbert and Sternberg preeented protocols for Mr Bowen's signature, and suggested the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs at sole arbitrator.