| Show RUMORS OF WAR Is england going to war with venezuela this is a ques ton ion that it appears as aa if it might be answered in the affirmative for a long time the boundary line of british quiana guiana has baa been a question between both countries news has hais reached here that oo on the dinst a fight bad taken place on the frontiers of quilna between venezuelan troops the trouble arose over the boundary line england claims aalice a slice of territory as large as the state of new york venezuela contends that england has no right to this territory england acquired her rights through the dutch from whom the country was obtained by the london treaty treats of 1814 at that time the river was regarded as the boundary line but in 1841 the british made a survey and claimed a large territory west of the river forts forte were built on what the british after the survey called the boundary dou andary I 1 line I 1 be from 1841 until 1884 the question was continually agitated in the latter year an attempt was made to settle the matter venezuela contended that the river was the line while the british adhered to their survey of 1841 during lord granville granviller Granvil lea s government from december 1864 to june 1885 a plan was outlined by which the boundary issue could be settled by arbitration however nothing of a satisfactory character was done and the question remained open and a source of frequent dispute last year an english official steamed up the streams of the disputed territory and posted announcements of english dominion all along the line of the 1841 survey he went so far as to a venezuelan officer and take him to quiana guiana to be punished guzman guxman blanco an ex president of venezuela and a very able statesman protested against the encroachments encroach ments and aggressions of england A sharp correspondence ensued between the two governments until finally diplomatic relations were broken off on now the report reaches us that a war has commenced between these countries countr lbs venezuela is bounded ou on the east by british guiana on the north by the carridean Carri bean sea ond on the south by brazil its area is said mid to be square miles and its population about two millions it is drained by the great river orinoco it has mountain peaks reaching an altitude of over feet it has ban a coast line of nearly 2000 miles and a maritime mara time power like england 00 could uld harass and destroy all the coast towns the country is divided into climatic divisions they are known as the hot lands the tena temperate lands and the cold landd there are in the temperate region some of the A neat linest and most fertile lands in the world and cereals of all kintle kinds can be grown there to perfection fec tion the capital city Ca Carac cae has a population of it is a well laid out and well governed city it is ab outten about tenor twelve miles from the coast and located some thousands of feet above the sea in 1874 when the writer of this article visited it guzman blanco was president the climate is beautiful the people though of the volcanic nature of latin americans in general genera are much superior to mexicans mexican they are more tractable more honorable more hospitable and aad more intelligent than any of the latin races to the north of them but americans are better liked there than englishmen and germans better than either of course a war with england is an unequal contest for such a small power as venezuela it must result in disaster for the weaker nation unless the quarrel should be taken up by some more formidable antagonist which is not dot very likely under the circumstances ina in all probability the weaker will have to go to the wall |
