Show GRESHAM CONCERNED VEXEZlEIiA PROBLEM IS AGITAT IXG HIM Situation in That Section Said to Be Alarming and America May Yet Be Mixed Up in the Troubles 10 f Washington April IThe secretary of state is very much concerned these daya by the Venezuelan problem The BrItish ultimatum delivered to Nicaragua is not a soured of political apprehension for it is not now believed that the British will take action In the of wi acton way acquiring territory in that direction or to jeopradize the property of Americans in Nicaragua by a bombardment In their efforts to collect the indemnity demand from Nicaragua aragua These are the two moves that might cause the United States to inter fere but in the case of the Venezuelan boundary dispute there is much graver cause for apprehension Jt appears that our ambassador Mr Bayard has not succeeded In inducing the British government gov-ernment to give heed to the request submitted sub-mitted by him at the direction of Congress Con-gress that the boundary dispute be submitted sub-mitted to arbitration The British are profuse In their declardtion of a willing ness to arbitrate tiUS to the land west of the Schoomberg line butin the view of the state department is a pure evasion of the real issue for there nover has been any reasonable assumption pf a British 1f a JrUsh right t this territory Ind it is territory lying east of this line th r fmgthe ub stance of the contention Thesitratfon is believed to be alarming as armed bodies of British and Venezuelans are pressing each other closely in the disputed terri tory and there may be a hostile clash at any moment The adminastration has been consider ing the course to be pursued In such case and it Is entirely probable that if the British persist in bringing about such a collision their failure to heed the repeated re-peated warnings and requests of the United States to submit the matter to arbitration the United States1 will feel obliged to follow the moral wJ has given to Venezuela in this matter las more substantial assIstance |