Show VENEZUELA IS SHREWD Raises the Tariff 30 Per Cent In Order Or-der to Pay Indemnity to v the Powers I VashIngton Feb IS The rot loAvinjf cablejjrnm l was received at the State department today from f Russell Rus-sell ulio is In charge t o the United Slates legation at Caracas during the absence of Minister BoAVen Minister Foreign Affairs Venezuela IUIB dccrcad 30 I per cent increase duties on all imports ia war measure I Just why thla decree was Issued by time Minister of Foreign Affairs instead of President Castro In the ordinary course piuyles the officials here The ton recorded In tie cablegram IH regarded re-garded as a Iceen slrolu of political lineisr for practically it amounts to lacint the Indemnity which Venoucli is i to pay the powers wholly upon the I shoulders of the I foreign merchants AVho conduct 1 of Vciiesuielas Import trade The Increase mentioned per centis the sam figure as the pticcntage 0 customs dulles at La Guayra and ljuqr to Cibllo to be aslgncd to the claimant nations |