Show CASTRO DEFIES UNITED TED Sift STATES Refuses to Accede to Demand for Arbitration of Claims UNCLE SAMS NEXT MOVE NOTHING GIVEN GWEN OUT AS TO FUTURE F TURE ACTION I as Venezuela March 3 Via I wn March 3 After an Interval of anven soven months W W Y the American minister has presented resented to the government of Castro another note from the Washington government Insisting upon upUn up n arbitration of ot claims of those American citizens ho believe have suffered ico at the hands of Venezuela This Tills action was taken by Mr Russell on feb Teb eb 27 In this new note Washington reiter reiterates reiterAtes ates tes its previous demands Judgment is expected momentarily in the suit brought by the government for tor the an annulment annulment of the famous Fitzgerald con concession concession concession cession now the property of the Orinc co corporation President Castro has twice refused to submit to arbitration the American Amerl an claims mentioned in the foregoing dis ath The last bEt refusal was in July 1907 The five claims which form torm the basis of the present negotiations are those of ot A A F P the Orinoco corpora corporation corporatIon corporation tion the Orinoco Steamship company the New York Bermudez Asphalt U company and nd the United States Ven Venezuela Y zuela company otherwise known as V the Critchfield concern c These claims run into millions of dollars u |