Show J VENEZUELAN NARY SEIZED AND TONED 4 FROM HARBOR BY THE GERMAN AN AND f t BRITISH VESSELS AT AI LA GUAYRA Time Limit of the Ultimatum I Reached and Active Operations Operations Oper- Oper Will Be Pushed hushed Against Little Republic i i f f r. r J 0 FIVE VESSELS IN ALL HAVE BEEN SEIZED 0 0 p 0 0 0 CARACAS c. Venezuela Dec 10 At At At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the 0 0 combined d German and British fleet seized and towed outside the harbor 0 p J Je e 0 o of La Guayra Guara a all l the elC ve vessels ls fc-ls which were then there These were verc the war- war 0 0 ships General Totumo Crespo-Totumo T t Ossum 1 and Margarita The ships were p 0 manned by men x I p pG 0 G 0 0 e 0 LONDON Dee Dec 10 The 10 The The Admiralty has hns received information Information of ot of the the 0 0 Seizure elzure of or the Ule Venezuelan gunboat at al Port of Spain Island of ot Ot C Trinidad 0 r n IV IV IV IV IV IV BULLETIN LONDON Dec 10 7 5 p p. p m. m In m.-In In response to an Inquiry made at the II Foreign office a representative of the Associated Press was informed that up to 7 o'clock this evening no information information information mation of ot an official character had been received from Venezuela everything everything every every- thing being being- left to the tho commander of tho British fleet bleat who had received explicit instructions as ns to what u co courso t to pursue VII V V IO LONDON DOX Dec 10 lO In In the House o of Commons Under Foreign Secretary Cranborne said the Government had no official information of or the seizure by bythe bythe bythe the Venezuelans of or oo British and German German German Ger Ger- man subjects or of oC the seizure of the Venezuelan warships ships b by the fleets of ot Great Britain and Germany Lord orne Cranborne added d that the BritIsh British Brit Brit- I ish h claims which necessitated coercion would fully be disclosed by papers to tobe tobe tobe be laid before the Hou House e e. e The They included a df demand mand for compensation for Interference Inter- Inter ference with trading vessels the Imprisonment imprisonment imprisonment Im im- and treatment Ill-treatment of ot British subjects and the destruction of at prop prop- ert erty The under secretary asserted that the he Government GO would follow ollo precedent in the enforcement of or analogous claims Replying to Mr Bryce Liberal Lord Cranborne said the British Minister at Caracas Camas had been Instructed to ta wait walt four twenty hours hour after the pre presentation presenta presenta- tion of the ultimatum and falling a n. reply to proceed ed to La Guayra where he was to alt avalt another four twenty hours on board a British ship That period expired last night Unless In the meantime a a. concession concession- had been re- re f r iy ll J jt was as necessary for his Majesty's ty tys ty's s Government to take for forcible action The GO f Government had not nol b been n Informed that such action sr 1 s l The l attitude o of the Foreign office office her here tiera one of of rell relief t the arrest t of ot th the British subjects It Il Is held Indicating provision I against treatment ill and consequent further complications |