VENEZUELA.
PERCENTAGE PROPOSAL RE FERRED TO HAGUE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi Received 4.35 p.m.. Feb. 8.
Now York, Feb. 7,
Mr Bowen lias declined to yield on the 20 per cent, proposal. Mr Herbert, British Minister, representing tho blockaders, vainly applied to President Roosevelt to arbitrate on that point. Tho question of preferential treatment will therefore be transferred to the Hague as soon as tho protocol is signed. Mr Bowen is prepared to pay each blockadcr five thousand five hundred pounds as a first instalment of payment for personal injury of respective subjects to seoure the raising of the blockade.
THE ARBITRATOR SUGGESTED
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 1.6 a.m., Feb. 9. New York, Fob. 8. Mr Herbert and Sternberg presented the protocols for Mr Bowen’s signature. They suggested the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs as solo arbitrator.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 9 February 1903, Page 2
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136VENEZUELA. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 9 February 1903, Page 2
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