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Show SEHOR CASTRO RAILS AGAISST UNCLE SAM Insists He Is Victim of United States iu His Present Plight. ' PARIS, April 23. Cipriano Castro arrived here at 0:30 this oveuing. Jlo walked out, of the station supported by two attendants, and it was evident that ho made his way with difficulty. Ilia return was in striking contrast to his two previous appearances in Paris. Instead of having a magnificent, automobile auto-mobile waiting, he entered an ordinary taxicab, taking with him his two attendants at-tendants and four friends, and went lo a modest hotel in tho Place Concordo, where ho hired a single room. ( Castro continued his denunciation of tho United Stales. "I am the victim of tho "United States," ho said. "The day will come when the powers will realize- their mistake. mis-take. They failed to understand tho significance-" of tho seizure of Panama. They will repent, but I will not. 1 defended de-fended in America and at The Hague tho rights of tho weak against the strong, which now is being violated. in 1113- person. Unfortunately my strength is betraying mo in this fight." Seuor Castro said the prosecution started against, him in Venezuela on a charge of having ordered the execution of Gen. Antoine Paretics, tho revolutionary revolution-ary leader, in 15)07, he insisted he did not desiro to recover tho president' of Venezuela and that he wanted only lo attend to his private affairs in the republic. re-public. Castro spoke bitterly of the Venezuelans Vene-zuelans for what he Termed their ingratitude in-gratitude after ho had almost, sacrificed sacri-ficed his life to dofend their "dignity, honor and interests." It is understood that Castro lias, written writ-ten a letter of protest to President Pal-Meres Pal-Meres along the lines of the note, which was given out recently by him at Fort do France. |