PRESIDENT CASTRO AT BERLIN.
FRENCH PRESS IRRITATED. INSURRECTION AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. (Received December 16, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 15th December. The French Press is irritated at President Castro being allowed to traverse France without a settlement of French claims. Castro is living! in great style at Berlin. Herr yon Schoen, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, sent him official greetings. The Dutch captured coastguard vessel 23 at Mayo, northward oi" Cumana. The crew were landed, and the vessel was conveyed to Curacoa. The embargo was intended to force Vice-President Gomez to declare President Castro's /fall. French advices from Venezuela state that an insurrection against Castro has begun in tho Merida district. President Castro, after embroiling bis country with almost every civilised state in the Old and New World, was attacked by illness a few weeks ago, and has gone to Europe for treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 7
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