Show UPRISING IN CARACAS AND ANDi ANDA A i MANY KILLED ILLEE I Further Trouble Anticipated i Which Will End in Over Overthrow i I throw of o Dictator r I CASTRO PROFESSES TO TOI I DOUBT DISPATCHES I CONFIRMATION OF REPORTS RE RECEIVED REI RECEIVED Lf I AT STATE DEPART DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT MENT FROM CONSUL CHENEY n Monday Dec De 14 via la Wil WI Villi li Pee Tec 16 The people of Cara Cararas CaraI I ras J rose today against President Cas Castro tro tM tn An infuriated mob unhindered by byI I t th pollee police swept through the city J wrecking the property of or his henchmen and ard his hI closest clo friends The people rounded up all aU the statues status and pictures of pr C President Castro astro from the clubs and other semipublic buildings and burned them on the Boulevard Boue le If Plaza Pees Pres Castros astros rule rue in Venezuela is probably ably abl ended In spite of Hollands Holland s warlike demon demonstrations along the c east J ast there have been no demonstrations against The Ther r they have all been dl di diT r T tea against gain t President Castro gastro astro and andA Acting A fins Prudent president Gomez Castro to Be Deposed Ft Farher r n r dangerous thi demonstrations are No Xo l act deposing f Castro astro from the presidency of Venezuela la Ia has yet been taken but such a step Is expected any moment An crowd of inhabitants of the capital welled by people from the outlying gathered in the streets street soon SOOIl daybreak The people began nan marching up and down the main thor thoroughfare ou and it was easy to see seo that their ill tem er would soon result In iol ilene no The by and mad madr ma no attempt whatever to restrain the th mob TV first building to be attacked and was that of the lottery Io tery monopoly ly The offices of the state enterprise that has lias enriched t itself at the expense of Df tw people were ransacked and pit pil pillaged aged Furniture was broken and I It thrown t rown Into the street and plies piles of lot lottery I tery teT tickets were destroyed The crowd then moved to the printing office of El EI i Constitutional the organ of President I II cEro Cesiro or which Gumersindo Rivas is I I editor and nod pillaged It t completely A Atean steam tean laundry belonging to Senor Rivas Elvas was U wrecked Dictators PictureS Pictured Burned The crowd then turned its attention to if s seera rera drug stores 4 belonging ts to t Senor Thielen a of General Mendoza and turned them Inside out outGeneral General Mendoza was at one time min minister mm I ister of finance and public credit under Castro astro He lie was sas also the presidents private secretary for several years ana has been regarded as one of his supporters He Is universal universally ly Jr hated by the enemies of Castro anG anGhis an his unpopularity and his close connection connection tion tin with the president accounted for forth forth th h anger of the populace against the property of his The statues and pictures of President astro were made Into a huge bonfire on In the Boulevard de Plaza The crowd f as the flames completed the de destruction of these effigies of the dic die dictator dictator Numerous inscriptions setting forth the virtues of Castro and extol extolling extolling ling lAng his bis powers next attracted the moo mono and every Inscription bearing Castros name was hacked out and erased Some Som of these legends legend were carved in the public buildings of the tile city Troops Called Out It wasi wal after 1 clock bythe by the time the I had gotten thus far in its depredations It lacked leadership and paused in fn n default bf other fields elds for Its destructive ve energies It was vas then that thata tiata thata a detachment of troops was called out duty on onY the city streets and Acting PresIdent t Gomez issued a manifesto prohibiting further manifestations I These The measures had the desired er e for the mob quieted down anc ana then dispersed The Tho attack attak yesterday on the offices of El Et when the crowd was as curbed by a It detachment of or soldiers who ho fired into the result resulted ed od in m several fatalities A criminal ac tIn tim had hd been begun against Editor Rivas and other of or the paper in which the t e are charged with responsibility for these deaths It is declared that R Rias Ras as and his men fired first on the people making use of revolvers El EI has suspended publication tion and ad Caracas is practically without a newspaper The funeral of Rojas one of the men killed in the fi h lS st has lus been fixed for tomorrow fw A vast row d will turn tarn out aud and further drs and rioting are expected CASTRO NOT WORRYING Expresses Doubt as to the Accuracy of the Dispatches Berlin Berin Dec 16 President Castro of ot Venezuela lla maintains his composure In Inor c n or Of alarming reports published re i rc ardin the disturbances In Vene Continued on Page 6 UPRISING IN CARACAS AND MANY KILLED Continued Con l From Page 1 zuela When dispatches were shown to him today that the people of ot Caracas had arisen against him burned the pictures and statues of the president In the public squares and had made an an attack upon a number of buildings including the stores of oC several of his warmest adherents and that several persons had been killed Cas tro said quietly I dont believe bellee it I had dispatches I from Caracas this morning but they the mention nothing of the kind President Castro was asked for an ex cx expression expression I of his views regarding Hollands Holland seizure of Venezuelan ships but referred the correspondent to Senor coa Venezuelan charge whom he authorized to talk for him The charge chare i j then said Act of Piracy 1 j I I doubt what has been b en published with j t regard to Hollands aggression because no declaration of war has been made nor has a blockade been b en announced and none established Therefore the seizure of ct small Venezuelan vessels by IW sheer force cannot be described other than as an act net of oC piracy unworthy any enlightened country On n the th other ther hand such a course I would jeopardize the arrangements which Venezuela nas ilas proposed to Holland I through h confidential agents and could even have a worse effect Inasmuch as II Venezuela V in meeting payments due to I Holland takes for that purpose a portion of ot the prescribed y 30 per cent of ot the cus customs customs customs toms receipts Thus Hollands act alt might place Venezuela In Ina a position of oC being un unable unable unable able to continue payments and also would jeopardize the interests of other nations Holland is In ip the wrong Tong and Is still more involved through the attitude which the Dutch Duth government recently has adopted i In view den of this the Venezuelan gov government government government has informed the diplomatic corps at Caracas of ot these facts and nd is waiting wafting before taking any further steps |