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Show GERMANY DEMANDS ' DRAFT OF BOWEH Seeks Another Way of Getting Cash on Its Thirty-Day Claim on' , Venezuela. -j WASHINGTON. Feb. . It-Falling - In the effort, to obtain from Mr. Bowen the Immediate payment in cash of the K500 which it was provided in the protocor of February 13th should be paid to Germany thirty days from date, .Germany has. requested re-quested Mr. Bowen to give a draft for the amount, payable In Caracas on the latter day. ' , . , . This latter request was made on behalf of the German embassy by Herr Baltazzi, fomerly Charge d' Affaires at Caracas, but who ha since come to Washington and has been assisting the embassy in the pending negotiations. Mr. 'Bowen was again forced to decline this request, which he did politely, at the same time reminding Herr Baltaszl that he was bound by the terms of the protocol, proto-col, which provided that the 5600 should . be paid at Caracas on the 15th day of March to the diplomatic representative of Germany. Just what reason was given by the Ger-' Ger-' man representative for making the request re-quest Is not known. Such a draft how-'- ever, It Is presumed would be 'negotiable . and the result would be that the Germans could Immediately obtain the money- it called for. The whole matter Is presumed to binge on the question of the return of the ships, national and private, which were taken by the German warships dur ' ing the blockade and regarding which there appears to be a hitch. |