VENEZUELA AND HOLLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 7

VENEZUELA AND HOLLAND.

AN ACT OF WAR. CAPTURE OF A VESSEL. / By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 14th December. Reuter's correspondent at Curacoa reports thai, tht) Dutch cruiser Zelderland captured the Venezuelan coastguard ship Alix outside Puerto Cabello, a seaport city of Venezuela. After sending the crew ashore, the captured ship was taken to Willemstad, the capital of Curacoa, Dutch West Indies. President Castro's flagrant disregard of international rights has brought him into conflict not only with Holland, but with France, Britain, the United States, and several other countries. In October the Venezuelan officials seized a British schooner which was lying becalmed off the coast, in pursuance, it is supposed, of a decree practically prohibiting trade between Trinidad and Venezuela. The quarrel with Holland came to a head with the dismissal of the Dutch Minister at Caracas, who had published an article in a Dutch paper declaring that Castro's dictatorial regime was leading to the decadonce of Venezuela. There are, of course, substantial differences between the two nations over the infringement of the rights of Dutch subjects. It was lately announced that America would not interfere with Holland's attempt to enforce her claims by a blockade of Venezuelan ports.