Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — VENEZUELA’S TIME UP. [ARTICLE]

VENEZUELA’S TIME UP.

Ninety Days Allowed to Answer Demand for Indemnity Have Expired. Caracas, March 7.—The U 0 days allowed Venezuela to answer the demand for indemnity for the arrest of English Officials Barnes and Baker on the Urtian river in December, 1894, have expired. The government will not speak officially but the highest authority is given for the statement that Venezuela refused to pay the ihdeffinity, declaring the question of the arrest and the boundary dispute cannot be separated. To pay the Indemnity would be to recognize British sovereignty over Venezuelan territory. It is believed her? that unless Bir Julian Pauncefotri' rind Minister Andreade can arrange matters satisfactorily in Washington England will use force to collect the money, treating the arrests as distinct from the boundary.