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Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1903, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.]

VENEZUELA. THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT GASTUO. A SECRET COMttACT TO RE-ELECT JUM. (tress associatios.l NEW YORK, 23rd March. Tho Venezuelan Congress refused to accept tho resignation ot (ioneral Castro, mill i equated him to reconsider the- mutter, but he refund to do so. LONDON', 23rd March. Tho New Yoik correspondent of Tliq Times says (he resignation is a complete I mupriso to ewiybody, including Mr. I Hny, American Secretary of State. Nobody supposes (Hays the correspondent) that tho resignation is in g Oo d faith, ex- ' eept on tho theory that Uenernl Castro ' li.-w nmnsscd all the plunder he- requires. Ruuter'a Wnnhiitgton corrcsputulmtt states tluit Venezuolim leaders represented to General Castro montlm ago that- his resignation would enable. Vcnezwlnns to present a solid front in controversies* with the Powers. The. iimioumvnicut of tho resignation, (ho correspondent says, is tho result of a secret agreement that General Castro imould relinquish oGlco pending an adjustment by the Powers of matters in connection with the question of indemnity for tho recent troubles, and that he will be re-elected later on. TIIE GUNBOAT RESTAURADOR. (Received March 24, 8.58 a.m.) NEW YORK, 23rd March. 1 The Now York Herald atak's that tho British cruiser Pallas has again seized tho Venezuelan gunboat Res>t.iurador as a pirate. (Received March 24, 0.25 p m.) NEW YORK, 23rd March. After the Germans restored" to Venezuela the gunboat Rostaiirador, slio began a course of piracy, seizing the eargots of captured vessel^ and then dismantling and abandoning them.