Show T LA arbitration WINS financial interests of the country president castro to yield minister bowen doubt edly will be one of the arbitrators britain admits state of warfare the sinking of the venezuela venezuelan n battleships it is s now more anan probable that the difficulty between venezuela and the powers will be arbitrated al though no definite conclusion has been reached it s generally con ceded that minister bowen will be one 0 of the arbitrators this action was the result of a demand made upon president castro by large financial interests in caracas urging him to bow to the superior force and yield to the pow r of the allies receding as gracefully as pos bible sible from the position he has taken strong pressure was brought to bear upon him to influence him to tabe take this action A large number of 0 the merchants of caracas presented the matter to the president and urged him to this course they submitted that venezuela was powerless against the mighty strength of england and germany assisted through the ultima turn tum of italy and the withdrawal ol 01 the italian minister by the strength of that country it Is gre reported ported that president cas tro has decided to yield to the wishes ct of the delegation and sue tor for peace through minister bowen he Is re aborted 01 arted to be willing to accept the erms of the british and german ulal from the beginning of the trouble president castro has acted with ex tra ordinary energy he ile has trans formed the entire country into a vast camp having raised more than 40 taen whom he has well armed equip ped pod and transported from every diree tion to la guayra gudyra and porto cabello in the expectation that the allies would attempt to land at one or both of these points but there has been a change of feeling and the prominent men ot of venezuela who were at one time ready to lead the people in defense ot of their country now consider that justification to take the men ol 01 the republic away from their families and their worl doea not exist they have resolved to discover a means to bring about arbitration or at least treat with the allies the means sought Is pres dent castro thought to lie through the united states legation and satisfactory re suits are on every hand expected to follow GERMAN POSITION IS STATED no occupation of venezuelan terri tory to be considered the german foreign office denies explicitly that the german squadron iu in venezuelan waters has orders to seize margarita Mar ganta island adding that no occupation of the territory of venezuela will occur the officials allege that a system at ic lc effort Is apparently being made to represent germany as the propelling power in tl e coercion of venezuela and as being responsible for all the harsh measures for instance they say the bom bar dment of the forts torts at porto ca bello Is ascribed to german initiative whereas the tho officials off say zay without res er that the bombardment was at the british commander commanders s i at ss i f wa tion the lopaze being the british ship the german commander in the firing as a loyal ally the german government Is not in on more severe measures than the original plan contemplated and regards the sh sinking alting of the two dim inutile wholly craft as an insignificant incident the berlin newspapers print from kiel a statement that the german cruisers ariadne amazon and niobe are again being equipped tor for depart ure to venezuela but the correspond ent of the associated press is inform ed officially that no such orders have been given and that it will depend later upon the demands of the block ade whether additional vessels will be sent SAYS STATE OF WAR EXISTS brit sh premier makes explicit statement in house of commons in the course of a long statement in the british house of commons premier balfour said there was no such thing as a pacific bloc blockade A state of war actually existed with venezuela and an intimation of the blockade would be given to the pow ers mr balfour added that the block ade would be carried out with as lit tie tle inconvenience to neutrals as pos sible the premier alev 1 said the opera eions were reluctantly undertaken not to recover debts but after a long and patient delay to recover corn com sensation pensa tion for assaults on british sub sects and the seizure of british ves sels eft I 1 0 ka e AW A ole showing relative D stances of england germany and po ants in north amer ica from venezuela and don A F pulido venezuelan charge d affaires at washington he believed that the germans also had claims besides the financial ones mr balfour Bal fours s statement was made in reply to the desire of the liberal leader sir henry campbell banner man for information on the vene huelan situation after reiterating lord lansdowne Lans downes s brief statement in the house of lords the premier con minued the blockade will be carried out by great britain and germany along different portions of the coast and though the two fleets will have the same objects they will not act as one force we never had any intention of landing troops in 10 venezuela or of occupying territory even temporarily we do not think it desirable on either military or other grounds all the conditions governing such a blockade have been carefully considered and will be published in due time for the information of neutrals the government is most anxious that these operations the necessity for which we deeply regret should be as little inconvenient to neutrals as they can possibly be made no dit dif ference will be made between the vessels of the various neutral powers I 1 it Is quite likely that the ted states will think that there can not be such a thing as a pacific blockade and I 1 personally take the same view evidently a blockade in bolves a state of war german officer off was killed it has been learned that an officer of the german cruiser vineta was killed during the bombardment by a rifle bullet fired from the shore the vineta left porto cabello suddenly for willemstad churacos where she arrived with her flag at half mast it Is believed she went to willemstad for the purpose of burying the body of the dead officer vice consul Volk inar german consul tiede and british ti 4 can if av sarp ro I 1 consul kolster have prevailed upon the german and british commodores to desist from their plan to aisem bark marines seize the cannon in fort solano and ask for the capitula tion of porto cabello the allies have released gen bello who was made a prisoner in castle libertador Liber tador and have promised to re lease the other prisoners in a few hours fort solano and castle lib are not to be garrisoned by venezuela as long as the present dif faculties continue this is agreed upon to avoid another bombardment argentina not to interfere it Is denied officially that argentina intends to intervene in the venezuelan affair although the press protest against the actions of 0 the anglo german fleets in the chamber deputy martinez protested against what he termed the brutality of the powers against weak nations and invited the argentine government to initiate a policy aimed frankly at securing the solidarity of south america by means of an agreement of mutual defense and independence among all south american nations M Mart martinez inezs s res alution was referred ret erred to committee acte by sp spa n and belgium the spanish minister to venezuela senor gaytan de ayala and the bel gian glan charge daf daff faires alres M van der heyde have presented a joint letter to the venezuelan minister of foreign affairs in which they ask in case the claims of other foreign powers are paid by venezuela that the same treatment given these powers be ac corded to spain and belgium ru mors are current in brussels and copenhagen that holland and den mark are about to present their claims to venezuela tor for a settlement fil busters are organ zing it is stated on what appears to be good authority that a filibustering party is being organized at butte mont to go to venezuela it Is said at least one well armed company all crack shots and old mountain men will go south in a few days A num her ber of spanish war veterans and sev eral oral veterans of the fenian invasion if of canada are among the men en isted listed senator stewart makes a kick about a week ago the district of columbia sent to senator stewart of nevada a water bill for something over 20 the senator went on the warpath about this imposition as he called it and on arriving at the capitol said well I 1 made this morning by kicking like a steer on the water bill they sent me I 1 kicked so hard that the windows rattled and they finally cut it down to get rid of me I 1 sup pose why halt half the time my house was closed veteran attorney to retire daniel G rogers the oldest ing attorney of milwaukee has retired from the profession he has been prominent at the milwaukee bar since 1856 he has made a considerable fortune chiefly in real estate 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