Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 8 | French Blockade May Cause a Revolution

FRENCH BLOCKADE MAY I 1 CAUSE A revolution venezuelan officers plotting against P president reel dent cast castro ro boasting that he will test monroe doctrine Will willemstad emstad friday feb 9 conditions dit ions in venezuela were unchanged at the date of the latest advices advises from that country the censorship i is rigid the report is that the attitude of bf vice president vicente gobez who is said to be plotting a revolution against president castro is case calept of a french blockade is causing soma some anxiety it Is rumored also general antonio second vice president has a 1 secret understanding banding tan ding with france and that he aspires to the presidency all the turmoil over the french cable companas comp anys concessions is attributed to t 0 general Ve lutin and it is expected he will soon abandon president Cas castro castrod army of men the total strength of tho army is reported to bo be men and not as the army accounts state the total aramenta is 1 mauser lauser rifles and ball cartridges 80 pieces of small artillery of old fashioned typo type and ten modern guns in position at the ports president castro is said to bo be boasting that he will test jest the monroe doctrine all against castro the reports say that thai aho tho best information in venezuela shows that franco france or any other power can rely upon almost the entire population to fight president castro and that an anxiety clety is ii every where expressed f for or the arrival of the french fleet to solve the problem which Is beyond the resources of the venezuelans Venezuela ns money will be decidedly scarcer it if 0 a war should break out and the venezuelan government has made no preparation whatever for the president castro continues his campaign against foreigners and has expelled a t man named