| Show FRENCH FRINCH CABLE rm w v v v mi COMPANY fiNED FED Venezuelan Court Assesses the Offender the tile Trifling Sum of FURTHER ACTION LIKELY FRENCHMEN AIDED THE MATOS REVOLUTION I Caracas Monday Aug 2 more then than th three years of legal procedure ure nrc the civil court of ot first Instance of or Caracas has delivered Judgment In the sensational case of the French Cable company The company has been found guilty of or complicity In the Mains Matos rev revolution revolution of ot 1903 and fined Other damages are also to be assessed asse against It The Tho trial has been even cven more moro startling than that against the thee New e York Bermudez Asphalt com corn company compan pan pany which also resulted In a fine because It has reached far tar beyond the high officials of or the cable company In Paris The evidence mentions mention in an n alleged compromising way even een such uch 1 names as ns that of or M lI minister of ot foreign affairs of ot France at the till time of ot the revolution It is Ils claim that the French government It Itself itself self extended extend d support to General Matos Maths and M I French vice consul at Caracas was so compromised by th the documentary evidence which tell fell into mb President Castros hands that he lie com corn committed suicide In Paris rather than face ace the tho disgrace of ot charges from his i g W v Treachery of The revolutionary suit as It was called was brought on July Jul 15 1905 and ani was based on a great creat mass of ot docu documentary documentary evidence consisting In part pan pa of t r the archives of the cable office at af Car Caracas Caracas Caracas acas which President Castro had seized from a treacherous of ot the company com pan These documents which were mostly copies of the tho messages sent ent over oer the lines are alleged by the tIle attorney attorney attorney ney general in his complaint to prove proe that General Matos after visiting the directors of ot the company In Paris was offered every aid by them In furthering his revolution that the Venezuelan manager Fernand was In Instructed Instructed from Paris to furnish very every aid to Matos that as a consequence the operators In Venezuela placed them themselves themselves themselves selves under the orders order of ot M st 1 reux who was the agent of or the revolution revolution revolution tion In Caracas that the cable em were all aU revolutionary spies that they secretly transmitted news to the revolutionists regarding the movements of ot the government troops that the con contents contents contents tents of or government messages were communicated to third persons and to foreign powers and that the company compan used all aU its power to disseminate abroad I I exaggerated news aimed at discrediting the Castro government Venezuela Isolated President Castros action in closing closingS up the he cable offices without providing for tor any other telegraphic communication tion with the exterior has been disastrous disastrous trous to commercial Interests in Vene Venezuela ene zuela Several attempts have been made to establish wireless communication and to get other cable companies to come comeIn comeIn comein In but all aU have hae been unsuccessful |
