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Show CASTRO MAY NOT HAVE TO LEAVE MARTINIQUE FRANCE MAY SUSPEND DECREE OF EXPULSION. This Consideration Will Be Made If Deposed Venezuelan President's Health Demandslt. Foil de- France, April 0. Clprlaaio Castro, the former president of Venezuela, Ven-ezuela, who disembarked here fron) , the bleaoier Guadeloupe two days ago. appears to be in better health today, lie had received no officii! notification notifica-tion of ,lh? deierinuiatlou of the French government to expel hiirr from the ielnnd. He shows no perturbation perturba-tion and is awuiiJng developments with tranquility. He spends his time quietly at the Hotel Ivanes and rc-cc'.vej rc-cc'.vej tio orui. This morning he spoke of the possibility of his goin? to Sl. Thomas, Danish West Indies. Paris. April 9. If the condition of, Cipriano Castro's health 'is really m giave, that his enforced departure from Fort de France. Martinique, where ho now is, would be dangerous, the French government is prepared to Suspend temporarily the decree of expansion ex-pansion against him. Le Journal today takes issue with a majority of tho French newspapers, which conflder that France Is bound to comply with the wishes of the j Gomez government, wltTT which nego- , tlatlons for the resumption of dlplo- j malic relations are now going on. I This paper declared France has I made a greal mistake lu following ! ihe American lead, and says thd United Unit-ed States is probably aiding Presi-I Presi-I dent Gomez In return for hid sacrl-l sacrl-l fices of Venezuelan Interests In the ' tettlement of the sordid disputes be-I be-I tweon the two countries. No matter what provocation Castro has given the powers, they canuot ignore the fact ' that Gomez Is a usurper, and it sets , forth tho opinion that th porsuaslon ; of the poweni probably will inflame Venezuelan public opinion against foreign for-eign intor-meddllng, and at the same time strengthen tho solidarity of Cas-tro's Cas-tro's partisans. |