Show president castro a conceit many stories have been told of cipriano castro president of Ivene V enebue zue la a and of his monumental conceit during the russo japanese war the fall of port arthur was being ex plaines to him pshaw he exclaimed with venezuelans I 1 could have taken it in four das with a thousand in one day your excellency said the diplomatic rep resent athe of a european power castro was so pleased at what was intended to be sarcasm that it is said the diplomat succeeded next day in securing satisfaction of a claim that his government had been vainly pressing for years |