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Show GERMANY GETS INTO CASTRO GAME r aaaaaaaaaajaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanai Declares Steamer ' Consul CrostncK No Right to Fly German Flag. BERLIN, , June 15. The' German government diialaima all responsibility for tha ateamer Consul Grostuek, which is reported aa firing tka German flag, and annonneea that tha blame for any complications that may raault from the landing of Ciprisno Castro, tba exiled president of Venezuela, will rest on the Haytien government. It ia stated emphatically that the steamer haenoright"todipIay""Ih German colon." It waa formerly the Italian cruiser TJmbria and waa pur chased from Italy by Hayti, which latter lat-ter country ia the one 'now properly eoneernad with tha movement of the vessel. American Embassador Hill called at tha foreign offiee todav. presumably to discuss the situation brought about by tha reported presence of Castro oa the Consul Grostuek. Tha steamer recently- arrived at Port da Paix, Hayti, ana, according to advices received at Washington from John B. Terrea, tba American consul at Port aa Prince, baa on board tha exiled ex-iled Castro, who is supposed to bs attempting at-tempting to return to Vcnexuela in tha hope of being able to rally hia erstwhile erst-while followers and so regain the presidency presi-dency from whieh ha was deposed after ha had left tha country for a visit to Europe in the fall of 1908. i |