Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-15 | Page 9 | U. S. Cruiser North Carolina Which May Spoil Castro's Plans

IU. S. CRUISER NORTH CAROLINA WHICH MAY SPOIL CASTRO'S PLANS ' fe?.?' '-f , 7-; riV. l! f Sue t J V f ) 1 . -''71 fi- - ... I R I WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, July 14. ' I The American armored cruiser North I Carolina, which carried the American I representatives to Venezuela's celebra- I Hon, has left Ia Guayra and is now anchored, a wireless message reports. I off Aruba island, in tho Dutch Antiles. I near the coast of Veneztiela. General I I Jose Antonio Davlla landed secretely 1 at Buon Ayre Island, thirty miles cast il f of Curacao, Saturdav night, having J J ! come from Venezuela. Davlla is one Ijl of the sixty-throe men who, led by General Ciprlano Castro, invaded the state of Tachlra, Venezuela, fiom Colombian Co-lombian territory some years ago. A powerful American warship is thus in a position to watch Castro's movements move-ments at close range if he really is in far western Vonezuela, as ho Is reported re-ported to be, raising an army on the Colombian frontier on the peninsula forming the western side of tho gulf of Maracaibo. Aruba, or Orobua, Island Is at the mouth of that gulf, thirty miles west of Curacao.