Download or read book Counter-Case on Behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty in Reply to the Case Presented by the Venezuelan Government written by Great Britain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Counter-Case on Behalf of the Government of His Britannic Majesty in Reply to the Case Presented by the Venezuelan Government: And to the Supplementary Memorandum Presented by the Government of the United States of America, and Counter-Case in Reply to the Cases of the Other Non-Blockading Powers Queen, which occurred in June 1902, and for which no justification or excuse is alleged, is a case of a. Peculiarly flagrant character. This vessel, flying the British flag while on a voyage from Grenada to Trinidad in ballast, was seized on the high seas by the Venezuelan gun-boat Restaurador; was towed into the Venezuelan port of Porlamar, and there stripped of her sails and deprived of her papers. She was finally confiscated on a mere suspicion of having carried a cargo of arms to Venezuela, and the crew were put on shore and left destitute. It is specially to be observed that the imme diate demands of His Majesty's Government were limited to the. Obtaining of an assurance that acts such as these should not be repeated, and that compensation should be paid for them; but that it was intimated that if it became necessary to take action in support of these claims, His Majesty's Government would also insist on payment of certain railway claims, the nature of which is explained in a succeeding paragraph, and which had been the subject of remonstrance for many months past, as well as of the claims in respect of the improper conduct of the Venezuelan Consul at Trinidad, for which there was no possible justification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.