Show ROOSEVELT IS FORMALLY ASKED to iO tot t j. j IE THE VENEZUELAN AFF AFFAIR AIR i President President Carefully Considering con J Con Con- f S the Proposition I I lou Hon Before Making Known Kno His Decision 1 isio r VAs WASHINGTON 1 Dec tc 21 The I.-The The po proposals pro pro- of Creat Great Britain and ana Germany r that President ld n Hoo evelt tile the tiler r Venezuelan Y lau lan dispute dl have hl reached Washington Vi ni Th They y nix ire In n such ucb form that the tha President ent can con accept or Jr reject the tho proposition ou outright I I So fat far the messages having ln baen re received re- re while th the President Pre was absent Zi the While lIou House e. e he huo has had lad no opportunity to consider er them and until he docs dO so o his decision cannot iannot be known sa some same me son nothing can be heft j Lt us to the details 0 of the nn l nhI although great Interest la itt felt 1 i ia to tile the extent of or the tile limitations limita lions which th the allies will usk to to be placed oi on 01 the cUllo cut curiosity on I tint thru must rem remain ln unsatisfied until un ut- un til the President has hai made up hi his mind what he shall shah do It II Is known that ho h ts disposed to act v with nil all speed In this matter for he realizes that the con conditions on th the blockade line ur are aru such that almost any moment an unpleasant incident may occur occur occur oc oc- oc- oc cur through the obstinacy of or borne skipper or II torn om genuine misunderstanding I standing n a ai to the terms o of or tile the blockade that mn may ma diminish the chances of or n. n peaceful settlement o of the Venezuelan I trouble lile REBELS ARE APE GATHERING FOE OE RENEWED ATTACK ON PRESIDENT CASTRO I i t p VILLE WILLEMSTAD ISTAD Island liland of or I Dec Dee 23 B By boat from om La Gu Guayra ro Tho revolutionists strengthened b by the I 3 Impossibility of oC the Governments Government's supS suppressing suppressing sup sup- S pressing- pressing the smuggling r arms arma and ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- Into the coury and by the fact that It has no fleet at its disposal have made answer to President Castro's Castros Castros Castro's Castros Castro's Cas Cas- tro's proposition that thc they turn their arms against aln t the foreigners who have attacked Venezuela b by referring him t to Gen Mato lato their only chief capable of oC S dealing with the matter The rebels ha have hac c regained courage The Government Go which signed Igne with hem an m armistice of ten days daz which S ends has O m men mn n at Bar Bar- and anti near Carn Caracas ns but hen V h 0 had I n rot It rf l es J against the foreigners have hae ha c re re re- tired f 45 S The r revolutionists have ha planned a n march on Caracas by three rO roads loads the leaders Ramos Antonio Guevara Gue Ur- Ur baneta and md with 2500 men will Ul march via Guatire Antonio Fernandez Fernandez Fer Fer- Oslo and Crespo Torre with 2300 more have left Camana an and Gen Rolando with 2300 troops will go from Alta Gracia Ammunition Is 15 expected to o arrive ever every day near i The situation for fot President Castro Is f considered to be again perilous attacked at attacked tacked by fotel and his own coun coun- h he can cnn with difficulty resist the tile tileS shocks as the Governments Government's resources S have vanished The Presidents President's departure depart depart- f ure for La Victoria is for the purpose o of trying to check the near advance to the capital of or the re revolutionists Gen Matos Matos Ma- Ma la- la tos will leave shortly IN DIEHLS DIEHL'S HANDS IS CASE OF OP STEAMER PUT PUTOUT PUTOUT PUTOUT OUT OF OP PORT AT NIGHT I 5 WASHINGTON N. N Dec 2 24 The The Navy today had re- re department up tip to noon l et d no nu word from Commander Diehl Dichl of the Marietta Manetta l' l concerning his reported protest the action of or the tho blockading blockading block block- ading sQua squadron ron at Ht Caracas In refusing to allow all the Red Hed D liner ner Caracas to remain in the harbor yesterday esterday long enough to her cargo No o re request request re- re quest for Instructions has haa come from Tho of oC the department have entire confidence In iii Commander Diehls n ability to handle h the situation on and unless they hear something from Crom him In the shape h of a n protest a against will m mal make make- the action of the allies they I no move mO As n. n rule It Is ts a agreed that a n. blockading bloem I In log ing fleet can do Ho pretty mn much nuch h as It likes Jt Is Intimated as 13 a n. possible reason 1 for the position po taken by b the allies In 11 1 declining to Co 0 allow the tue Caracas to re reI remain remain re- re main in the time harbor at night that in the dark It would be he difficult to c exercise ercle surveillance of oC what was wa being helno taken talen out of oC her hel hold For the earno sarno reason I th time the allies may have decided that flint she 5 should not return to the harbor toda today but hut should take lake on her passengers out out- Bl Bide e. e GERMANY I IS ANXIOUS I TO HAVE VE ROOSEVELT ACT AS ARBITRATOR BERLIN B Dec 21 Cern Germany t. la Jo anxious to ive President acc i o. o the formal invitation S from Germany Germau and Gnat Groat Britain to act na as arbitrator In th the Venezuelan contro contra versy The German Gorman O- O Governments Government's nt's preference once rence IK in vcr very decidedly In ol favol of arbitration ar nr- ar- ar through h President t Roosevelt elt t rather than through lh The Tho Hague ue tribunal tribu trIbu- nal because It believes the President ieh t twill will reach rench an early decision lon whereas a aToc The Toc H guo court would take tale many manyI month Th The o al also aim o insist that I 5 It Jt l t K ti tb the a advantage vantage of oC the United S States to lo have tho President decide e the S matter Ii S German Begins I I BERLIN Dec 21 Commodore I.-Commodore Ij I d der cler r reports that the German J of ot Porto abello be began an Dec December nd I and that the blockade of oC Maracaibo by bythe the Germans commenced today ii |