CASTRO'S FALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1908, Page 2

CASTRO'S FALL.

* GRAVE CHARGES. Berlin, December 24. Leading Venezuelans have cabled to General Castro, the President of Venezuela, wlio is now in Berlin, informing liim that his power is destroyed a".id his property confiscated, nnd that lie will be arrested if he attempts to return. It is indicated that there are grave charges against General Castro. Some accounts report that General Castro is furious, and is determined to return and overthrow his opponecnts. Others state that the President is indifferent, believing the conspiracy against him to be a Dutch invention. It is reported that General Castro possesses a fortune of from three to twenty-nine millions, and that this is lodged in European banks. He is living in a Berlin hotel at the rate of .tlf>oo a week". General Castro declares that the United States and Holland have fomented the rising against him.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT AND AMERICA. | COMMISSIONER AND WARSHIP SENT. New York, December 24. General Gomez asks for a settlement of Venezuela's disputes with the United States, and has invited an American warship to visit La Guaira. The authorities at Washington interpret this to mean that General Gomez desires a warship sent as a precaution to prevent disorders. Mr W. I. Buchanan has been appointed a Special Commissioner, nnd is proceeding to Venezuela aboard the cruiser North Carolina. Holland has suspended her naval demonstration.

CONSPIRACY AGAINST GOMEZ. NIPPED IN THE BUD. Caracas, December 24. General Gomez, Viec-President, (lis covered that Cardenas, Castro's per sonal secretary, had been entrusted with the duty ot promoting a eon spiracy and inciting his assassinatioi with the help of a mutinous regiment commanded by Colonel Castro, i brother of the President. MISSION TO EUROPE. Caracas, December 24. Dr. Jose de .1. Paul, ex-Foreign Min inter of Venezuela, has started fo: Europe to settle Venezuela's interna tional disputes.