Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1902 — NO FEAR OF A MIX-UP. [ARTICLE]

NO FEAR OF A MIX-UP.

United States Not Likely to Be Involved in the Trouble. No international question of moment is likely to result over the destruction of the Firminist gunboat by a German warship. No official report of the Incident has reached Washington. Therefore the few officials who are in the city are unable to discuss it intelligently. The disposition of the question ultimately depends upon conditions which will be definitely ascertained before any action whatever is taken. It is assumed that the German naval officer acted under a construction that the Haytian gunboat was a pirate. The Haytian revolutionists have not been recognized as belligerents, and their rights up£n the high sea under international law is a complex question, which, following precedent, will be decided by each government concerned. It is not believed that the Monroe doctrine will enter into any controversy that may arise, or that the United States will be directly interested.