THE VENEZUELA REVOLT.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 158, 6 January 1903, Page 2

THE VENEZUELA REVOLT.

Capture of Shipping. Telepraph Press Association Copyright New York, January 5. The New York Herald states that it has received a cypher message which is not very clear to the effect that General Castro intends resigning. Other advices state that the Bank at Caracas has no funds to redeem goods or to meet Government expenditure. The steamer Zumbador, flying the British flag, was towing some captured prizes when the hawsers parted. She returned to La Guayra and landed the crews. The German cruiser Yineta was at Puerto Cabello when the Customs House and a number of vessels were seized. It was quite a sudden coup, the explanation given being that the captures were necessary to ensure an effective blockade. Thirty thousand dollars were seized aboard the prizes. The withdrawal of the forces pacified the inhabitants, who now dread the revolutionists camped in the vicinity. The National Bank at Venezuela has suspended payment, and the Government are unable to pay the troops. President Castro declares he will neither abdicate nor resign. Berlin, January 5. Several German newspapers have grown impatient of delays, and attack the Monroe Doctrine, declaring that Germany always repudiated the Doctrine. They contend, moreover, that the South American States do not recognise the United States' supreme authority.