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Show CASTRO IN VENEZUELA Former President at the Head of Rebel Band Who Wish to-Depose to-Depose the Constitutional Constitu-tional Force Caracas. Aug. 1. In consequence of the outbreak of the revolution in Venezuela and the Invasion of the country by forces under the leader-j leader-j ship of former President Clpriano I Castro, the federal council today con-1 con-1 BtltUtionally authorized President Vln- "lit-- 'lomez to assume dictatorial i powers until the movement is crushed President c.oniez on Wednesday I night sent the following telegram to the governors of all the Venezuelan states : "General Cipriano Castro, Impelled I by ambition and the craze for power, has provoked a revolution in this republic re-public by ordering his partisans to arm themselves against the Constitutional Constitu-tional government "Already rebel forces In several localities lo-calities have disturbed the public order. or-der. It is necessary for you to be alert and to act rapidly and energetically in assisting the government to crush the rebels. "The peace of the count rv. which conscientious Venezuelans are obliged to nourish, cannot be left at the mercy of adventurers who possess no idea of decorum "I trust you will fulfill your duly " The governors in their replies promised prom-ised unqualified support of the government. gov-ernment. Some of them request0.! the dispatch of additional arms ami ammunition. it was rumored yesterday that Castro Cas-tro was on board a steamer off Coro. but the government received no definite def-inite word of his landing on Venezuelan Venezu-elan territory No troops have yet been sent from Caracas to meet the rebels as tin"-government tin"-government believes the state troops strong enough to deal with them. 1 Castro Lands ot Coro. WiUemStad, Curacao, Aug. 1 Corroboration Cor-roboration of the report of Clpriano CastrO'e landing at coro Venezuela, was received here today from Puerto Cabello. Hernandez in Washington. Washington, Aug I. General .lose Manuel Hernandez. Venezuelan Nationalist Na-tionalist Liberal leader, now a political po-litical exile, arrived in Washington today and called on Acting Secretary Roosevelt of the navy His tall was unofficial and after a brief visit with Mr. Roosevelt he went to the state department to pay his respects to Secretary Bryan. The Venezuelan exile, popularly known as "Kl Mocho," is opposed both to former President ('astro. Instigator In-stigator of the present revolution, and to President Gomez, against whose government the uprising is aimed He declared Ins present attitude was one of observation and that he bgeved both Gomez and Castro were destined to political rttiremenl ( astro, whose whereabouts hitherto have been Indefinite, has landed at Coro, In the gulf of Venezuela. This Information was cabled to the- state department today by American Con sul Thomas W Voetter at La Guaira, the port of Ca ra B |