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Show I f4..4-4-4.4-----t--t- tv GOVERNMENT DEFAULT. Mature of Claims of Great Britain and Germany. .,x'.vv York. Dec. 10. The principal ''i'.ish creditors whose claims are to "forced by the ultimatum against , j rn zuela are, according to the Trib- . un , i-orrcspondent in London, railway Hnd harbor improvement companies. I ' "'no ,f these companies complain of 'faults of interest guaranteed by the eii..ZUe!an government, and another 1 .corporation, which took up an issue of f rmnds, elaims that a considerable amount of unpaid interest is due it. i ftiere are also claims for damages to 1 'ailways an3 other property from war 1 losses, and also for unpaid charges for I i!'rllt on the government's account. J he British claims in the main are ? Jia.Sf''1 on government defaults or neg- genee, and are not uncollected pri- ate or business debts. J he German claims are .larger in amount and more" varied in their na-and na-and the responsibility of the Ven-, Ven-, u9an government for the redemption - the obligations is less obvious in cer-n cer-n Epctions of the account. There are i no intimations here of the amounts either of the French or American claims which must be considered. The precautions taken by the United States in ordering a strong fleet to the Venezuelan coast do not escape attention. at-tention. It is considered a sign that the Washington authorities are on their guard against the taking of too drastic dras-tic measures on the part either of Germany Ger-many or England for the collection of a debt from a weak power distracted with revolution. European nations have been financing railways and harbor har-bor improvement schemes in South America half a" century, but they have not been accustomed to depend on naval na-val demonstrations for the collection of defaulted interest. |