Show ALLIED NATIONS SI SiGN N PROTOCOL AND BlOCKADE WilL END ND 4 I Feb 13 W V vV V W Bowen Venezuelan representative representative in the peace pe e negotiations negotiations at Washington tonight signed with each of or the allies representatives a protocol providing for the immedi immediate ate raising of the blockade bl and for the th reference of the question of prefer preferential en treatment of the claims of the al allies allIes allies lies against Venezuela to The Hague arbitration tribunal The final formalities occurred ed at the British embassy At 1130 to tonight tonIght tonight night Herbert Deering first secretary of ot the British embassy announced an to the Associated Press that the t e British protocol had just been signed and that the signatures of the Italian and Ger German German German man protocols would follow in the order named flamed Written in Different Languages The Italian protocol was signed at 1150 and the German protocol at 1210 the thc presence of Baron Sternberg Ster berg at the White House Hg se musicale delaying a final or se to th iJ oW until after midnight The T e British I protocol was in English the tho Italian in Italian and the German in German and English Mr 11 Bowen signed in duplicate duplicate cate ate for Venezuela Sir Michael Herbert for or Great Britain Signor Mayor Des DesPlanches DesPlanches DesPlanches Planches for Italy and Baron Speck S ck von on Sternberg for Germany GermanS Immediately on the signing of the thelast thelast last ast protocol cables were dispatched to London jondon Berlin and Rome announcing the he fact It Is expected that the com corn manders of the blockading bl fleet with within I in Inthe the next hours hour s will re receive receive their theil orders to withdraw their vessels at once Venezuela Gains Two iwo Points By the provisions of these preliminary preliminary preliminary I nary protocols which have pave required more than three of constant ne negotiations negotiations negotiations I Venezuela makes two dis distinct 1 gains the immediate e raising of or a I blockade from which she has been suf suffering suffering I fering for lor or some weeks rind and nd the return ret rn of all vessels war and merchant I which have hae been captured by the t c allied fleet I Great Britain Germany and Italy re received received I advance payments of I each Great Britain receiving her pay payment payment ment meat on the signature of the protocol and Germany and nd Italy within thirty and sixty days da s from date Germany in addition will receive five monthly pay payments meats ments until the full amount m paid her herin herin herin in advance aggregates As a guarantee for the satisfaction of their claims Mr Bowen pledges s the allies a ashare ashare I share with the other creditor nations in i 30 O per cent o e customs receipts of the two ports P of or Guayra Guara and Puerto Cabello i Advantage For Por Italy This percentage wIll Avill be set aside be beginning beginning ginning March llarch 1 I and retained in the Venezuelan treasury trea u until The Hague tribunal shall shaH decide whether ik shall be distributed without precedence precede pee among the claimant nations or whether the allied powers of Great Britain Germany and Italy shall receive preferential preferential preferential payments pa ments f Italy Itah by her protocol gains immedi immediate li liate ate payment of her claims f without further adjudication as soon as the joint commission comm at Caracas shall have passed on the remainder of her claims In round numbers the ad adjudicated adjudicated I indicated Italian claims daims amount to tol from which will be subtracted ted l the to be paid her sixty days from the signing of her first protocol I The Italian HaHan ambassador also hasse I cured for hIs government the Insertion in tle protocol of or an au agreement that j I Venezuela will insert in her treaty j with Italy tal the tho favored nation clause possessed by b the other nations Manner Tanner of Adjudication Great Britain in has left her h r protocol unchanged since it was approved by bythe b bythe the London foreign some days da s sago ago It is stipulated by b the protocols that hat the claims of the creditor naVor n tio shall be adjudicated by joint commissions to I consist in each instance of a Venezuelan lan Ian a representative of or the claimant power and jn ja case ca e of an umpire to be named by b the president dent of States o f The protocols in providing ding for refer reCer reference ence enee en of the question of preferential treatment to The Hague Hag e do not state in detail d tail the methods of procedure by which the case is to be laid before beCore that tribunal This will be done d ne In a second set of protocols pr the preparation of which ivill begin a at once It is provided however that not Venezuela alone but all the other na nations shall be permitted to appear with I her before the tribunal in opposition to J the allies aUles claim preferential pay payment payment ment meat Upon the signing sig ing of the proto protocols protocols protocols cols tonight congratulations were ex cx exchanged C changed by the four negotiators President Castro Notified Mr Bowen then thea dispatched a brief cablegram to President Castro inform informing Informing ing lug him of the signature of the proto protocols protocols protocols cols providing for the he immediate rais mis raising ing of the blockade bl The British protocols consist of nine articles and the others are practically of oC the same length Alt All provide for fot the I renewal of existing treaties of amity amly I and commerce with Venezuela The customs receipts to be beset set aside I for the powers pending the th decision de Ision of ot I The Hague are arc to be deposited in the f Bank of England at Caracas I 1 |