The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1902. ALL SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS - —— American Consul Prevent Bombardment of the in Vain Tries to Forts. Warships Open Fire While He Is Bearing to Them an Apology From Castro, Contiged From Page 1, Column 1. | - tain G. P, Davison, lay at Puerto Cabello fiving the British fiag, after having dis- charged her cargo. When Puerto Cabello last Wednesday was boililng with excitement over the | drastic action of the German and British | Ministers and naval force, a rabble of na- | tives boarded the Topaze as she lay in | the harbor, arrested her captain and crew, pillaged the vessel and subjected the British flag to taunts and insults. The imprisoned sailors were afterward re-| leased and they had returned to-their ship ‘Wwhen the Charybdis and Vineta steamed | into Puerto Cabello yesterday morning. Captain Davison of the Topaze immedi- | ately. boarded theCharybdis and stated his | grievance to her commander, who mus- tered a force of fifty marines and put them aboard the tramp collier to protect her from further indignity. | The Puerto Cabello populace, noting the | disembarking of marines from the English warship, believed the allies contemplated | immediate landing in force and the | Venezuelan garrison hurried to arms and | fiocked to the shore. The United States Consul took a boat and boarded the Charybdis to inquire as to the intentions of the ships of war. The | glish commodore commanding the | Charybdis ipformed him that the naval| vessels had visited Puerto Cabello in searc of Venezuelan ships of war, and the Consul went ashore satisfied. | Meantime the British commander had | sent an officer ashfre bearing a message | to the port authorities, the purport of which was that an apology and satisfac- tion for the attack on the To made immediately The English ultime- tum added unless such reparation | were made within two hours, the penalty | would be an immediate bombardment of the fortress and the custom-house of the ze must be | port. The two warships cleared for ac- tion and took up their positions within . v range of the port def At the expiration of the allotted time the Charybdis opened fire, followed by the German cruiser Vineta and from five un- til nearly six o’clock in the afternoon they | maintained continuous bombardment from their main batteries. warships then steamed away, ar- | ilo state that | immediately advised President Castro | He replied instructing 2l authority to lose no time sking proper apology and giving as. f adequate amends for the out- dignity to the British flag. Castro’s message was not re- until forty-five minufes past four | lock yesterday afternoon and before | e United States Consul, who was com sioned to carry the repzy aboard t p, could get away on his errand Lo | Charybdis, the hour of five o'clock | ruck and the two :stantly opened | e bombardment was directed chiefly | st Fort Solano and Castle Liberta- | Both forts replied with a desultory b rain of Ly the warships® batteries. he forts had been silenced, sl e and made prisoner of its were killed. : to the inside harbor of ) Cabello is through a channel not few hundred feet wide. To channel as one enters the bombarded by the h cruisers. It is an old- fashione > which was rebuilt in the eightee century, Tts sides are com- paratively and would offer but poor modern shells. It is not eian Govern cannon there. e in Puerto Cabello is righ > L It is brick building and cc utive offices a long two-story itains, besides exec- large warehouses. , Steamers discharging at Puerto Cabello tie up im- | mediately in front of the custom-house. The town itself is flat and stretches from | the water front inland to the base of the @ hills, 2 distance of two or three miles. ' The outside harbor of Puerto Cabello | is hardly more than a large bay, offering comparatively little protection to ship- ping. The Inside harbor is very secure end quite commodious. —_— GIVE NOTICE OF BLOCKADE. Fleet’s Commanders Warn Venezue- | lan Ships to Stay in Port, CARACAS, Saturday, Dec. from the commanders of the allied fleet, which the Venezuelan Government re. fused to receive yesterday at La Guaira, was sent to-day to United States Min- ister Bowen and forwarded by him to the proper Government officials here. The note, which is in the name of Great Brit- | ain and Germany, requests all Venezue- lan ships after the lapse of five days to refrain from sailing from the port of La Guaira until the present difficulties are ended. The question: What right have Great Britain and Germany to coerce Venezuela without declaring a blockade? is being asked on all sides here. “El Mocho” Hernandez and certain other revolutionary leaders left Maracaibo to-day for Curacao, on their way to Car- acas. Hernandez is probably the most popular of_the revolutionary leaders. President Castro has kept him imprisoned at Maracaibo for several years past. The news of the shelling of the fortress and custom-house at Puerto Cabello this afternoon by the British cruiser Charyb- dis and the German cruiser Vineta, reached Caracas at a late hour to-night. It caused much excitement, and, in spite of the preventive measures taken by the police of Puerto Cabello, trouble is feared at that port. The arrival of the United States gun- boat Marietta at La Gualra yesterday was due to a rumor that United States Minister Bowen was in danger. There has been no ground for such a rumor, and the presence of the Marietta was not re- quested by Bowen. The situation here continues to be critical and there is much excitement | us, were unable to sustain it under | shot and shell poured upon | the | vbdis landed a force of ma- | who took possession | nomi- | Nonme of the garrison of the | 1 a low sandspit, is the | it, or mainland, side | 13—A note | < among the German residents of Caracas, many of whom have called at the Ameri- can legation to seek refuge. Thke people of Caracas are astonished that the Government in Washington re- mains silent in spite of the recent act of the allied fleet. The enlistment of Venezuelan soldiers continpes. Two thousand men from the interior reached Caracas to-day. The boycotting of British and German g00dd continues. Ninety Germans liviug in the country have offered to support the Venezuelan Government against Ger- many. The fact that the people of Venezuela are in absolute ignorance of the designs of the allies upon their country creates a deep and disturbing impression here. The chief officer of President Castro’s guard “If there is to be war let us know and we wiil fight. (If there is to be only an assault on our coast, where we cannot reach the allies, the only thing left for us to do is to declare that to destroy your debtor’s furniture is a strange way to force the payment of his obligation. I believe this situation will soon come | within the scope of the Monroe doctrine.” The British legation here was re-opened to-night under the American flag by W. W. Russell, secretary of the American le- gation. CASTRO MAKES BITTER SPEECH Bays Two Great Nations Are Acting Like Savages. CARACAS, Dec. 14—The populace thronged the streets to-day and patriotic demonstrations continued far into the night. An immense crowd, whose num- bers are estimated at more than 10,000, gathered in front of the presidential pal- | ace and called on President Castro to ap- pear. Some of the orators among the crowd having advocated reprisals against the foreigners resident in Venezuela, President Castro, in rage at the sugges- tign, refused the demands made in the fellowing speech: Citizens, the size of nations, like the size | of men, is measured only by their acts. Those born brave prove their.valcr on the battle- field, not against defefseless citizens, who per- haps are innocent, are in their hearts with and who are ashamed of the infamy of their compatriots. We will seek prisoners for Venezuelan jails on the battlefield. Our action will be directed only against those who come armed. How- ever great may be our indignation, we must behave as a cultured and civilized people— especially now, when the most powerful na- tions -.of Europe are behaving like real gav- : counsel the greatest prudence’ in not to abandon our rights, the justice of r cause and our reputation. The good name of Venezuela must remain always secure whatever emergencies may arise in the struggle. If we fail, it will be glori- ously and heroically, but I assure you that our country will be saved because the Supreme Being above who sees\and directs all cannot abandon us in this fatal emergency, justice and right being on our side. 1, who never trembled before danger, swear 1 will Il my duty and joyfully sacrifice my the honor and dignity of the na- dmmend great circumspection, pru- dence and even cordiality, so that strangers resident in our country—Americans, French, ards and even the Germans and be the first to prociaim in the orid that Venezuela is a cultured ivilized nation. The speech was applauded and a pro- cession of whites and negroes trversed he city without an act of violence belng committed. The President is calm and is giving ali his time to the organization of resistancs | Fourteen hundred men enlisted to-day from Caracas alone, including boys and fifteen pri; | The conduct of the British and German commanders is severely censured by all of the European colonies. Alfred Blohm, | the banker, who went to La Guaira and | saw the commanders of the British and | German cruisers, said he did not hesitate on meeting Charge von Pilgrim-Baltazzi on board the German cruiser Vineta to | tell him that the conduct of the German [ legation in this question had been shame- | ful, and that the matter could have been | arranged if Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazal | had only seen President Castro, who, like the German colony, was ignorant of Ger- | many’s design. AR RN | WASHINGTON GIVES WARNING. Great Britaiz and Germany Must Not Go Too Far in Venezuela. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Representa- tions were made by the State Department to-day to the German and English Gov- ernments in the matter of the peaceful | blockade now being enforced by those Governments in Venezuelan waters. Sec- retary Hay took the dispatches from Minister Bowen announcing the Puerto Cabello bombardment to the White House | during the day and discussed the situa- tion in Venezuela for some time with the President. In the matter of the blockade the Sec- retary has instructed our Embassadors in Berlin and London to represent to those Governments that the United States must not be understood as giving its con- sent to any extension of the international right of peaceful blockade. It is not | known that this instruction was called | forth by any incident making such repre- sentation necessary. It was made simply 2s a precautionary measure and gives the attitude of this Government should any development arise making its position a matter of importance. | 1t was confidently hoped that before this time some answer would have been re- ceived from the German and British Gov- ernments to President Castro’s request that the claims of those Governments be submitted to arbitration. This request was transmitted from Caracas by Minis- ter Bowen during the latter days of last week and in turn was handed to the em- bassies of Germany and Great_Britain at this capital. Secretary Hay has not re- ceived any reply. The visit of President Castro to the bed- side of the wife of the German diplomatic representative in Caracas created a good impression here, as it did at that place, whereas the bombardment of Puerto Ca- bello made an equally unfavorable one. It is regretted that the commanders of the German and British vessels should have found it necessary to resort to such a severe step as the bombardment of the city for an act for which satisfaction might have been obtained in a more peaceful mgnner. The greatest fear is that such acts will result in inflaming the minds of the Venezuelans, who naturally are of an impetuous nature, and that re- taliation may follow in assaults on for- eign residents in Venezuela. ’ ll MO O T ATy ErNTT R Ry Samn . < D.\s—roBA.\_, — | ! NOTED WAR CORRESPONDENT AND SCENES AT THE SEAT OF HOSTILITIES. QBA‘F'\‘EQ.V British Public Criticizes Government’s Man- -+ agement of Venezuelan Affair. ONDON, De: .—The news that the first shots have been fired in Venezuel: has awakened the most apathetic of the "critics to the gravity of the situation which is developing in that country and the demands that the Government present the official papers in the dispute to Par- liament aresnow mest insistent. These de- mands are accompanied by comments ‘to the effect that Foreign Secretary. Lans- downe has failed to display, either in the War Office or in the Foreign Office, such conspicuous ability as to induce the na- tion to trust him with a “blank check” in such a complicated and combustible mat- ter as Venezuela threatens to prove. The official papers will be issued to-day or on Wednesday at the latest. Thus far the British public has had to depend entirely upon press dispatches for its news and the serious complaint is made that the public is obliged and in- debted to American newspapers for the text of the British and German ultima- tums to Venezuela. The revelation of the terms of the ultimatum does not enhance the existing appreciation of the British Government's management of the affair. One newspaper, referring this morning to that clause of the British ultimatum which demands the payment of a sum equal to that paid to Germany, says such a peculiar claim makes the British note Lk £ \ o o 2 sort of aopendix to the German note and asks ironically: “Why did Great Britain not entrust the whole business to Germany? That country would have been more expedi- tious in the matter. Italy's active entrance upon the scene is not believed to simplify the situation. Special dispatches from Rome assert that Sigror Riva, the Italian Minister to Venezuela, presented the Italian ultima- tum in Caracas on Saturday. The time | set for an answer to this ultimatum ex- | pired on Sunday, and according to the | Rome dispatches Signor Riva has al- | ready embarked on the Italian cruiser | Glovanni Jausan. Signor Riva's two daughters had a narrow-escape from mal- treatment from the populace. It is said that owing to the fact of the Italian cruiser Carlo Alberto being fce- | bound, the cruiser Liguria has been or- dered to proceed to Venezuela. Italy will thus have four. or five warships on the spot to co-overate ‘with the Bpitish and German warships. Most of the morning papers consider that the bombardment of the fortress at Puerto Cabello puts all likelthood éf ar- bitration or any pacific settiement of the difficulty entirely out of the question, and they begin to talk seriously of the diffi- culty of enforcing payment of the de- mands should President Castro decide to defy the powers and retire to the interior of the country. Realiziig that a prolonged blockade or Argentina and Chile May Become Allies of Venezuela. | Spacial Dispatch to The Call. ARACAS, Dec. 14.—That Argen- tina and Chile may declare them- selves in sympathy with Vene- zuela and even become her ac- tive allles in the pending crisis is a contingency that appears mora than possible in the light of to-day’s de- velopments. The Call correspondent has learned on reliable authority that the Government of Argentina, in a dispatch from Buenos Ajres, has instructed its consular repre- sentative to report to Buenos Ayres as early as possiblue what appears to be the attitude of the United States and what view that Government is likely to take of its obligations under the Monroe doc- trine in the face of the aggressive action of Great Britain and Germany. Should the United States decide to re- main impassive on the ground that its in- terpretation of the Monroe ddctrine does not warrant interference with foreign powers resorting to drastic measures for the collection of claims I am informed that the Government of Argentina, feel- ing the autonomy of all South American states is jeopardized, is prepared to take a decided stand by the side of Venezuela and to offer her assistance to President Castro. Argentina is not anxious to de- clare her attitude, and will do so, it is said, only in the event that the United Slates should maintain a complaisant at- titude of non-interference. It is believed also that Chile entertains similar views, and many official cabie messages have been exchanged yesterday and to-day between the official repre- sentatives of the Venezuelan Government aud those of the Chilean republic in Val- paraiso, as well as with Buenos Ayres. L e e e e e e e il ] hostilities would endanger the interests and perhaps the lives of foreign residents of Venezuela many newspapers are be- ginning to ask whether the Government has not acted over-hastily. CENTERVILLE, Md.. Dec. 14.—The business portion of this city was devastated by fire early to-day, entailing a loss of about $150,000. times of crisis. Caribbean waters. SR el STAFF OF FAMOUS CORRESPONDENTS O REPORY VENEZUELAN HOSTILITIES . FOR THE CALL AND HERALD BUREAU Special Dispatch to The Call. EW YORK, Dec. 14.—Although The Call-Herald correspondents in Venezuela and at Port of Spain and other South American and West Indian points have been doing admirable service since the Anglo-German-Venezueian affair began and have scored “beats” each day, The Call and Herald, in addition to their services, have thought it best to send some of the staff men to the front. Accord- ingly Stephen Bonsal and Nicholas Biddle are now on their way to Venezuela. Bonsal is a noted magazine writer and has ably represented The Call and Herald in China, Cuba, South America, the Philippines apd other countries in —_— Biddle is one of the best of the Herald’s staff and has been through more than one Venezuelan and South American revolution. South American people and affairs. : In addition to these men, W. S. Meriweather, a Herald staff man and one of the best naval writers in the United States, is with the American fleet in He is well acquainted with / | growing shade of gravity in of- e %" MAY JOIN ISSUES WITH VENEZUELA — Washington Of- ficials Growing Anxious War May Lead to Serious Com- plications Special Dispatch to The Call ALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, | N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. H 14.—Tt is impossible to ignore the | ficlal circles as the news from Venezuela grows steadily worse and worse. As a general thing the dis- patches from Minister Bowen follow the dispatches in The Call Two cables were received from Minister Bowen to-day. One arrived at 3:20 o’clock this morning and descjibed the situation as “much quieter.” Mr. Bowen explained that the great excitement which had been | reported previously had been due to the | flight of German and British diplomats, to the arrest of subjects of Great Brit- ain and Germany in Venezuela and to the | seizure of Venezuelan ships of war with- out a declaration of war or a blockade. | This cable closed with the words: “Everybody fears a bombardment.” Mr. Bowen had evidently gauged the prospect of a bombardment by what he understood the temper of the forelgn haval commanders to be. How well his fears of a bombarament were founded were shown in his second cable, which said: “Have just received news from Presi- dent Castro that the British and German s are bombarding Puerto Ca- No official could be found who would comment on the news that the allies had begun the bombardment of the Vene- zuelan port. It was simply regarded as another unexpected event tending to com- | mit the aggressive powers more deeply than ever to a policy which they may have difficulty in abandoning with good | grace to themselves. The Call's news from Venezuela that the clerical party had joined forces with | President Castro and that Chile and Ar- gentina would offer Venezuela assistance if the United States did not intervene un- der the Monroe doctrine, also was com- municated to the officials. They regarded this as likely to have a great tendency to encourage the national spirit of Vene- | zuela. So far. there is no sign of any inclina- | sion on the part of the administration to make any shift whatever in its policy of doing all it can to mitigate the difficulties of the situation and bring about an ami- cable adjustment. i England, having been induced to aid Germany to pull a very hof chestnut out | of-the fire, shows a" disposition to go as | far as the<Kaiser. Venezuela, having ig- rored dipiomatic intercourse in the ad- justment of debts and having already suf- | fered at the hamds of the allles, is pre- | paring for war on land, and is evidently | ready at this moment.to give the invad- ers a bloody reception. The question that everybody is asking outside of the “inner” circles is: “‘How long_will the United States permit a state of affairs rapldly growing into a-relent- | less punitive warfare to go on without | protest?” { The only answer that can be obtained | | to this is: “We must await developments. | Our only proper concern seems to be to | see that the Monroe doctrine is not vio- | {lated. 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