CASTRO AND GOMEZ.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 763, 28 December 1908, Page 2

CASTRO AND GOMEZ.

WHAT WILL HE DO ABOUT IT? fBY ELEOTBIG TELEGRAPH — OOPYBIOBI. [PBR PBEfIB ASSOCIATION.] New York, December 24. Gomez asks for a settlement of the dispute with the United Stabes, # and has invited an American warship to La Guaria. This is interpreted at Washington as a precaution to prevent disorders. Holland has suspended her proposed naval demonstration. Berlin, December 24, Eighty leading. Venezuelans have cabled to President Castro stating that his power has been destroyed, his "property confiscated, and that he will be arrested if he attempts to return. Gray« charges are indicatedSome accounts report that Ca6tro is furious, and is determined to return and overthrow his opponents. Others state that he is indifferent, believing that the conspiracy is a Dutch invention. It is Reported that Castro possesses a_ fortune of from three to twentynine million, lodged in European banks, and that he is living in a Berlin hotel at the rate of £1500 a week. It is clear that the United States and Holland were forewarned that a rising was intended. (Received December 28, 8.25 a.m.) Caracas, December 27. The nipping in the bud of the plot against himself was completed by President Gomez without the sheddin gf of blood. Former revolutionaries are urged to return to Venezuela. J Political prisoners were liberated on the boundary of the republic. The dispute with Columbia has been settled.