People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — PAUNCEFOTE NOT TOLD. [ARTICLE]

PAUNCEFOTE NOT TOLD.

Has No Information Regard ing the Nicaragua Ultimatum. Washington, March 20.—The British embassy has received no information as to the ultimatum of Great Britain to Nicaragua for the payment of $75,009 within seven weeks in redress for the expulsion of Mr. Hatch, its consular agent, from Bluefields and of the dispatch of a British warship to back up the ultimatum. Under these circumstances it is thought in official circles the subject may be handled through British authorities in Nicaragua, although it is usual to advise the ambassador here on a demand of this moment. It is probable Ambassador Bayard will be instructed by cable to call the attention of the British government to the ultimatum addressed to Nicaragua and to ask for some expression in the nature of an explanation of the British purposes. It is felt in diplomatic circles here that the signs are certainly ominous of approaching trouble in the south with British warships bound for Nicaragua to collect indemnity under duress, with a French war .vessel bound for La Guayara, Venezuela, to take the exI pelled French minister aboard, leaving a wide breach of diplomatic relations, and with other European nations threatening to follow Great Britain's example in coercing the small Central and South American republics in the payment of debts and indemnities.