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Show FRANCE MAY INTERFERE. Has a Little Bill Against Venezuela Which She is Anxious to Collect. The French legation has notified the Venezuelan government that, in view of the convention in 1867, France was allowed to collect directly a part of the revenues of several customs nouses in Venezuela as a guarantee for her diplomatic claims arising out of the previous revolutions. France, it is said, renounced forever by the convention conven-tion of 1885 the, exercise of this right on condition that the interest on this debt be regularly paid. As this payment pay-ment has not been made since, without asking the authorization of Germany, England and Italy, France intends to revive her right of direct collection. The French charge d'affaires paid visits vis-its to the foreign ministers and twice called on President Castro during forty-eight hours. This activity on the part of France evidently is in connection connec-tion with her intention to revive her rights and is considered as an answer to the attitude adopted by the allied powers. , |