| Show WANT WAR t The Feeling Is Very Strong in Venezuela Ven-ezuela NEW YORK Jan ISA dispatch to the World from Caracas Venezuela says The war feeling is still alive The Free Masons formally offer themselves to the government to fight for Guina Vicepresident Guillet of the society soci-ety for the defense of of Venezuelan territory has isued a strong circular calling the attention of the government govern-ment to Englands attitude on the frontier The circular speaking in the name of the people asks for the liberation liber-ation of the political prisoners aad armed forces immediately to resist the invaders Merely Speculation NEW YORK Jan 18A dispatch to the World from London say The reports concerning the destination destina-tion of the British flying squadron cannot can-not be more than the merest speculation as it sails under sealed orders and even the admiral in command will be ignorant ignor-ant of his destination until the seal is brokeii at the prescribed distance from land It is pretty generally admitted that after the squadron assembles at Spit head tomorrow and is inspected from Osborne by the queen it will steam into Bantry Bay Ireland Beyond that there is not a glimmering of authoritative information in-formation as to its objective point from Bantry The ultimatum from Ejigland to Venezuela Vene-zuela demanded payment of indemnity for the attack on the British Guiana nolice within three months That ultimatum ultima-tum has been delivered at least six weeks probably longer and no reply or offer or payment is known to have been made by the Venezuelan government In fact it was stated by the Caracas correspondent cor-respondent of the World some weeks asio that the Venezuelan insisted that the indemnity and the boundary questions ques-tions should be treated as one a proposition pro-position which if made to Great Britain Brit-ain would certainly be rejected These facts give some color to the suggestion sug-gestion that the true object of the flying sauadron is to operate against Venezuela Vene-zuela should she refuse to pay the indemnity In-demnity demanded for the attack on the colonial police On the other hand the English fleet now in the neighborhood of Venezuela is quite large enough as was proved at Corinto to overawe any South American republics |
