CASTRO AGAIN
RETURN TO VENEZUELA. By Tel »?raph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, July 9. Tho Venezuelan Government reports that ©s-President Castro is in Western Venezuela with, a thousand followers. ENSCONCED IN THE MOUNTAINS. WITH TWO' THOUSAND ARMED MEN. (Received July 11, 0.25 a.m.) CARACAS, July 10. Ex-President Castro, with two thousand partisans, armed with modern rifles, is ensconced in the mountainous regions bordering the Maracaibo Gulf. His landing has resulted in a general panic. ' It is believed that he has £1,400,000 in a Paris bank. General Gomez, brother of the prosent President, lias sent two bat talions to Maracaibo to conduct rco .u naissauces. President Castro, who, during his term of office, contrived to embroil his country with nearly every civilised power, was deposed in December, 1903. Ue was in Europe at tho time, and attempted to return to Venezuela, but was not allowed to land. On June 14th last it was reported that, he had arrived at Hayti in a steamer firing tho German flag, but the statement was afterwords denied, it being affirmed that tho captain of tho steamer In question had announced the ex-president’s presence merely as a joke.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7849, 11 July 1911, Page 4
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