Show VENEZUELA Latest Rumors Concerning the Boundary Question I WASHINGTON June 23Sir Julian Paunceforte the British ambassador and Minister Andrade of Venezuela have been negotiating of late upon the settlement settle-ment of the Uruan affair and incidentally toward opening negotiations on the boundary question proper There have been delays due to the month or more in the transmission of mal to Caracas and return that thus far the return so negotiations negotia-tions have not proceeded beyond an Introductory in-troductory stage I It is the pendency of those negotiations to which Mr Curzon under secretary of foreign aiiairs referred in his public statement betore the house of commons last Friday when he spoke of the m structiotib given to Sir Julian to given Julan communicate com-municate with Minister Andrade and to the latters failure thus far to respond At first some question was raised here as to the of Mr Cuizons accuracy 11 state i mont a officials doubted whether stteI Andrada has received from Sir Julian Ian I-an suggestion toward negotiations on the boundary I I appears however that these doubts i referred to technical details and that in a general way Sir Julian and Mr Anarade have been negotiating on the lines stated by llr Curzon There appears to be considerable diplo matic fencing in the matter just now lrom the British standpoint Sir Julians overtures t Mr Andmde afford the lat tel an opportunity to submit propositions I proposi-tIons which may bring the governments I together but from the Venezuelan standpoint stand-point the British overtures should consist i of definite defnie propositions I The Venezuelans say there is nothing for them to propose except arbitration 1 which they have proposed time and again I This involves nice diplomatic distinctions as to who shall make the overtures embracing em-bracing the exact propositions Meanwhile Mean-while there is constant delay on these technicalities owing to time consumed in the mails between Washington and I Caracas i Thearrest of Mr Harrison has not been i communicated to the officials here I appears to be conceded however that Mr Harrison Was in the wrong if the I dispatches are correct in stating he was on the west side of the river j Mr Chamberlain secretary of state for the colonies laid down the Cuyuni river as part 01 me provisional oounaary pena ing a settlement so that it is said that the British will not make > the contention that Harrison was right in proceeding beyond this boundary This takes from the incident its serious aspect ab Mr Harrison is not likely to be supported by the vignrous protest that was at first anticipated |