FRENCH COMPANY FINED
CARACAS, Auguet 28. Tne Civil. Court in Caracas has mulcted
a French cable company in a fine of 5,000,000d0l damage, besidiee a further amount to be assessed hereafter, for complicity in the Matos revolution. The- decision is a repetition, of that against the New York Bermudez Asphalt Company, cabled on August 16 last year.
In Augu6t last year the Venezuelan Court fined the Bernrudez Asphalt Company £J.,000,000 for aiding Matos in a revolution. The material damages were assessed at a later date.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 27
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85FRENCH COMPANY FINED Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 27
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