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Show DEFERS TO THE HAGUE Castro Now Willing to Submit to, the Permanent Perma-nent Tribunal. j WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Minister Bowen transmitted to the State department depart-ment today another reply from PresI-j Ment Castro touching the arbitration proposal. As heretofore. President Castro Cas-tro expresses willingness to submit the ilia tter. to. arbitration and, In addition tjb his former communication, he is now Villllng to recognize the propriety of rjubmlttlng the claims referred to in the rrtritlsh and German notes to The Hague tribunal, something that he has not up to 'this point been willing to do. Some details remain to be arranged fcWcre the next step, which is the appointment ap-pointment of commissioners, and it Is p.tt yet known how Castro will receive fthe demands still Insisted upon by the wl. allies for ,a money payment, and how he will view the rejectment of his own tfamand for the immediate withdrawal of the blockade as conditions precedent prece-dent ! A . - |