People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — ENGLAND WILL GO AHEAD. [ARTICLE]

ENGLAND WILL GO AHEAD.

Intends to Collect Indemnity from the Government of Nicaragua. London, April 17.—The St. James Gazette, commenting upon the latest developments in the dispute between Great Britain and Nicaragua, says: "There is a wonderful ignorance of diplomacy on the part of the American journalists. Why should we want to bombard Grey town? If Nicaragua has been so foolish as to refuse to pay the indemnity which, with the knowledge of the United States, we demanded, we shall take such steps as the American government was perfectly aware of at the time of asking. The Monroe doctrine has been a doctrine for sixty-two years and has not been acted upon yet. When Grreat Britain has serious differences to settle with South American republics it will not be prevented from doing so by anything but settled international law.” New York, April 17.—A special dispatch from Washington says: “There was a conference at the state department last night by Secretary Gresham, Dr. Guzman, the Nicaraguan minister, and a number of Spanish-American representatives, and although everyone present declines to state what occurred it is almost certain that some reply has been received here indicating Great Britain’s next step toward securing the Indemnity demanded for the expulsion of the British consul from Nicaragua. However,’ every official of the department has been warned against divulging further information with reference to the Nicaraguan affair.”