Germany’s Reply Hints Arbitration Rejection Likely
The tone gives the least hint of Germany’s character while signaling arbitration will likely be rejected. any refusal may come with new suggestions.
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1902
Page
2
The tone gives the least hint of Germany’s character while signaling arbitration will likely be rejected. any refusal may come with new suggestions.
Paris and Washington dispute over how to settle Venezuelan debts with France asserting priority for pre Castro claims and demands most favored nation treatment for older claims while UK Germany and Italy weigh protections for their interests Caracas warns D Assas sails to La Guayra as Bowen faces slow progress and a potential blockade set to begin Saturday
Instructions were sent to Signor di Riva in Venezuela to act with Germany and Britain, ensuring uniformity. Italy believes the cruisers Giovanni Bausan Elba and Agordat can co operate in a tripartite blockade while Agordat heads to Venezuela after an audience with King Victor Emmanuel.
Caracas reached by AP correspondent reports Castro angrily rejects United States story that Luifish German ultimatums were accepted by Venezuela. Castro says arbitration cannot follow acceptance and rejects notion of an Anglo German ultimatum as such. He notes Venezuela will not act while US legation arbitration proposal to Britain and Germany is unanswered.
Reports state the blockade will take effect Saturday at 31 P. M. on La Guayra Puerto Cabello Coro Maracaibo Carupano and Barcelona with German commander Scheder ordered to avoid force. Washington says it will be a war blockade and the U. S. will remain neutral while recognizing belligerents.
Admiral Dewey proposes a Christmas schedule for the fleet avoiding Venezuelan concentration. Key rendezvous set at Trinidad and St Thomas with multiple squadrons and flagship assignments under Higginson Sumner Crowninshield Coghlan and Dewey. Mayflower likely remains as flagship while the fleet rests at San Juan and Culebra.
London report notes U S stance on a blockade of Venezuelan ports and recalls Bismarck on Africa. The Times Berlin correspondent argues America Britain friendship outweighs any African ties and Venezuela. Walther Long says UK foreign relations are peaceful and no war danger with the United States.
Berlin observers note a neutral stance in German media as Britain and the United States react to Venezuelan events. The Cologne Gazette argues no facts justify distrust of Germany and says Germany seeks only to settle claims and enforce just demands by blockade rather than war.
The House debated Venezuela inquiries as the Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a McCall resolution urging the Secretary of State to provide information about Venezuela. A separate Shafroth proposal on arbitration with European powers was postponed, leaving no further action planned.
The Hague December 18 The Dutch cruiser De Ruijter tasked to depart for Venezuela to safeguard Dutch interests there after plans to send it to the West Indies.
The Falke seized the Victoria at Lake Maracaibo entrance after disabling her by cutting down the mainmast. Germans abandoned the vessel amid Venezuelan indignation and street demonstrations against Great Britain and Germany in Maracaibo.
Caracas reports seized documents link Matos revolutionists to allies action against Venezuela. Cargoes of war munitions have moved from Willemstad to the Venezuelan coast and steamers from Port of Spain are alleged to transport arms to Ciudad Bolivar with British knowledge. Venezuela vows to crush the uprising.
Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi the German Chargé arrived in La Guayra with official permission. He telephoned his ill wife in Caracas and later met with Prefect Leiibabaza. A British cruiser secured shore provisions as Tribune arrived and Indefatigable departed for Trinidad.
The Executive Committee of the British branch of the International Union passed a resolution regretful that Britain fought Venezuela without trying arbitration under The Hague Peace Convention. It urged the U S to protest any war on an American state before an arbitral offer was refused. Copies go to Lord Lansdowne and Secretary Hay.
President meets with General Benjamin F. Tracy to discuss aspects of the Venezuelan question over a luncheon in Washington. The ex Secretary of the Navy is understood to have been called to advise on policy directions.
The Brussels correspondent of The Daily Telegraph reports Germany backing Belgium in claims against Venezuela totaling 1,250,000 dollars. The dispute centers on debts Belgium asserts Venezuela owes.
Andrew Carnegie held a housewarming at his new Fifth Avenue and Ninety-first Street residence last night. About thirty three Carnegie Steel Company executives, from Pittsburgh on a special train, joined Mr and Mrs Carnegie and their sister at table. Veterans included Capt L T Brown and Thomas Morrison, with others such as Thomas Lynch and W E Corey attending.
Concord New Hampshire December 18 The Constitutional Convention votes 313 to 2 to approve an anti trust amendment to the state constitution. It also rejects reconsidering a vote to adopt a woman suffrage amendment by 186 to 177.
Whittier birthplace monument fund in Amesbury aims for 10000 dollars with over 4000 raised. Boston sculptor H H Kitson designs a statue reflecting the anti slavery phase of Whittier's career. New York autograph sale of about 200 Whittier relics will help defray costs. monument will be 150 feet from the Whittier homestead.
Chicago Real Estate Trustees Owen F. Aldis Byron Lathrop and others executed a trust deed to Northern Trust Company to secure £90,000 of first mortgage refunding bonds. Each £1,000 bond is payable at Scottish Provident Institution London on June 1, 1907. Ten or more bonds may be redeemed on an interest payment day after one year. Bonds secured by valuable real estate in central Chicago.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, sick with typhoid fever at 22 Park Avenue, has worsened with generalized peritonitis. Doctors report the illness grave while relatives, friends, and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt attend at the bedside amid anxious messages and calls.
A morning blaze in a rear stairway shaft trap held five stories of residents at 229 East 108th Street. Police climbed the fire escape and aided a child a woman and five men to safety as ladders were raised. About 100 women and children were lowered from thirty five foot ladders with no injuries. Damage estimated at 1000 dollars.
At a mass meeting in the German Club Stapleton speakers including George W Stake David Tyson Henry P Morrison E J Wheeler Rev Dr Youcum and Capt Joseph Nelson urged acceptance of the Rogers plan to build a new fleet of boats from Tompkinsville with a 3 cent fare A Committee of One Hundred was appointed to press city authorities to act at once.
Brooklyn resident Matthew Dodd shot and killed Lee Palmer of New York in the Norfolk and Western shops in Bluefield. After a scuffle sparked by Dodd's criticism of Palmer for letting his assistant handle a task, Dodd struck Palmer with the revolver butt and fired a fatal heart shot. Dodd was arrested. Palmer planned to marry in New York on Christmas Day.
Three freshmen captives Edwin Buchach Edward Van Cleaf and Victor Meyers were dragged to a Class of 1905 banquet at the Arena on West Thirty-first Street. They were bound photographed guarded fed bread and milk and forced to recite and sing before midnight.
The 2,000 strong levee strike tied to the AFL Convention ends in defeat as a Northern agitator guides the effort. A split union and an injunction hinder meetings while C F O Neill remains in New Orleans to lead the effort. The strike collapses with workers returning to duties and O Neill leaving for Buffalo.
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