VENEZUELA DEFIANT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9125, 26 June 1908, Page 5

VENEZUELA DEFIANT.

TROUBLE AIL.AD

UNITED STATES MINISTER

LEAVES CARACAS

Received June 25, 9 a.m. CARACAS, June 24. The United States Charge d'Affairs has left Caracas.

Other nations are having great friction with President Castro. It is understood that France and Columbia are practically severing relations with Venezuela.

A cable from New York on March 10th last slated that the Slate officials in Washington had declared that Venezuela's discourtesy had been so grave that it almost compelled the United States to send an ultimatum. They asserted that President Roosevelt and Mr Root (Secretary of State) consider that it is necessary to chastise President Custro. General Castro, a native of El Tachira. one of the Andinc pro vinccs, w.;s in the early nineties sent to the Federal Senate at Caracas, and there snubbed for his uncouth provincialism. He returned to his ranch vowing vengeance. After a brush with the tax-collectors, he raised the standards of revolt, and in a few weeks was proclaimed President of the Andine provinces. Towards the end of IS9B, under President Andrade, he was called in by dissatisfied military leaders to bring about a revolution. This he did, and with such success that he was proclaimed Andrada's successor, much to the disgust of the gei orals who had summoned him. The President of Venezuela has always in a general way been the owner of the country, but no one has owned it quite, so complete as General Castro. He has annulled must of the concessions granted to foreigners by bis predecessors, and has in(l:c':cd indignities on forcer residents. As a result, his ports have been blockaded, and he has, perhaps, received more ultimatums than any other man living. In April, 1906, General Castro announced that lie was abandoning power temporarily, but he soon made a triumphar.t re-entry into Caracas.