People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — BRITAIN IS WRONG. [ARTICLE]

BRITAIN IS WRONG.

HAS JUGGLED WITH THE BOUNDARIES OF VENEZUELA. 1 Most Important Doc amenta Brought to Light In Hawaii—Will Hare a Marked Effect In Settling the Dispute with the Little Republic. Washington, May 15.—According to advices received here important British documents hhve been found at Hawaii regarding the pending Britlsh-Vene-zuela boundary question, in which the United States has urged arbitration as a means of settlement. Assistant Surveyor-General Curtis J. Lyons of Hawaii has examined them and has made a map, accompanied by a statement which, it is said, supports the Venezuelan contention, even on the evidence thus far presented by the BritIsh.Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan minister here, says it is the first time that the. documents sent out by the British foreign office have been made available in the controversy. The records now brought to public attention by Mr. Lyons were furnished to Hawaii by the British foreign office at a time when Hawaii was a monarchy and largely under British control. The documents are now on file in the surveyor's office at Honolulu, where Mr. Lyons has had access to them. He was led to the investigation by the publication last month of an official British map of the territory. On comparing this with the map furnished by the foreign office twenty years ago he found that the boundary line had been entirely changed. The first map gave the line as Venezuela claims it should be. The last map shifts the line far westward and includes as British territory about 10,000 square miles which the first map showed to be clearly Venezuelan territory. This intervening 10,000 square miles is the subject of contention. The old map was made by the Royal Geographical society of England, and was thereafter given official approval and sent out by the foreign office. It is therefore considered of scientific as well as official value.