Show CAUSE OF TROUBLE Minister Loomis Explains Causes of Present Venezuelan Affair Springfield 0 Dec IS Francjs B Loomis United States Minister to Portugal has left here for New York city to sail for his post Mr Loomis was formerly Minister to Venezuela The foreignbuilt railroad systems In Venezuela are largely l responsible for the present trQuble In that country he said Just before his departure Indeed In-deed they can be said to be the primary causes of the matter An Inability on the part of the Venezuelan Government to meet Its obligations to German and English capitalists who had Invested many millions of dollars and the work of the revolutionists who had greatly damaged these lines and In many casen wholly prevented traffic added crisis to crisis = until the present trouble came asa as-a natural climax bringing war upon that Government The conditions I have enumerated have been largely responsible for the hostile feeling between the nations of Europe and Venezuela and IL person who Is familiar with South American affairs can readily appreciate the different differ-ent steps leading up to the present outbreak out-break |