A VENEZUELAN OUTRAGE.
British Goldmlneps Seized.
( Press Association;) ' ; " By Electric Telegraph — -Copyright. ..'.,. .- v >•'■•■ : Cabacas, Dec; 2. \ A Venezuelan officer and soldiers seized fourteen British goldniiners and jproßpectprs.wo]cking considerably within "British' territory near the newly-de-marcated Guiana boundary, and killed a t fifteenth who was attempting to escape.; The fourteen suffered great hardships.' They were imprisoned at Santa Catalma and .treated as common felons. .
President Castro courteously received the secretary of the Georgetown Institute of Mines ' and released 1 tjie prisoner^. -; • . . .•"■."■'. ; •S' i . Britain opened an enquiry and Venezuela agreed to a joint commission to ascertain definitely the locality of the outrage.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 581, 3 December 1904, Page 5
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100A VENEZUELAN OUTRAGE. Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 581, 3 December 1904, Page 5
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