Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1905 — AJAX DEFIES THE LIGHTNING [ARTICLE]

AJAX DEFIES THE LIGHTNING

Castro Takes His Btand In That Asphalt Company Blatter and Says “Lay on MacDuff.’’ Caracas, Venezuela, April 12. “President Castro will not withdraw the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company case from the Venezuelan courts and will not re-submit the 01cott case to arbitration if the whole American army and navy come to Venezuela.” This emphatic statement of General Alejandro Ybarra, the Venezuelan secretary of foreign affairs, reflects the spirit of the reply which President Castro made to the recent proposal of the American state department for the arbitration of the Bermudez and Olcott cases.