THE PROTOCOL SIGNED. Differences Between Venezuela and Powers Referred to Hague. % BLOCKADE DECLARED AT AN END, Minister Bowen as the Repres entative of Venezuela Has Ably Discharged a Diffi cult and Delicate Task, ? Washington, Feb. 13.?Herbert W. Bowen, Veneuzela's representative in the peace negotiations at Washington, tonight signed with each of the*allies' ] ie}areeentatives here a protocol pro Tiding for the immediate raising of the Veneuzelan blockade and for the re ference of the question of preferential treatment of -the claims of the allies against Venezuela to The Hague ar bitration tribunal. The final formali ties occurred at the British embassy. At 1L20 o'clock tonight Mr. Herbert Deering, first secretary* of the British embassy, announced to The Associated JPress that the British protocol had .'just been signed and that signature of I the Italian and German protocols would follow in the order named. ' The Italian protocol was singed at 11.50 and the German protocol at 12.10 o'clock, the presence of Baron Stern . berg at the White House musicale delaying a final close to the negotia tions until after midnight Mr. Bowen signed a duplicate for Venezuela, Sir Michael Herberrfor Great Britain, Signor Mayor des Planches for Italy and Baron Spec Ton Sternberg ? for Germany. Im mediately on ' the -s?gningt^pf th last protocol cables were dispatched to j London, Berlin and Borne announcing the fact It is exepcted that the com manders of the blockading feet within the next 24 hours will recieve their orders to withdraw their vessels at once. By the provisions of these prelminary protocols,- which have required more than three weeks of constant negotia tions, Venezuela makes two distinct -gains, the immediate raising of a blockade from which she has been suffering for some weeks and the re * turn of all the vessels, war and mer^ chant, which have been captured by the allied fleet. Great Britain, Germany and Italy receive' advance payments of five, thousand % five hundred pounds each, Great Britain recieving her pay ment on the signature of tbe protocol 'and Germany and Italy within 30 or 60 days from date. Germany, in addition, will receive five monthly installments until the full amount paid here in ad vance aggregates $340,COO. As- a guaranty for the satisfaction of ijeir claims Mr. Bowen pledges the allies to share with the other creidtor nations in 30 per cent of the customs of the two post of La Gaayra and" Puerto ? Cabello. This percentage will be set aside beginning March 1 and retained in the Venezuelan treasury until The Hague tribunal decides whether it shall be distributed without prefer ence among all the claimant nations, or whether tfie allied powers of Great Britain, Germany and Italy shall re ceive preferential payments. Italy by her protocol gains immedi a& payments , of her first class of claims, without further adjudication, as 309n as the point passed on the remainder of her claims. In round numbers the adjudicated Italian claims amount to $560,000; from which will be subtracted $27,500 to be paid her sixty days from the signature of her first protocol. The protocols in providing for refer ence of the question of preferential treatment to The Hague do net state in detail the methods of procedure Dy which the case is to be laid before the tribunal. This will be done in second set of protocols, the preparation of which will begin at once. Upon the signing of the protocols to night congratulations were exchanged by the four negotiators. Mr. Bowen then dispatched a brief^ cablegram to President Castro informing him of the signature ^pf the protocols pro viding for the immediate raising of the blockacfe. ISatxtTo'n Monument to Washington. 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N?73 STATIONS No 72 pm * p m 3 00 *Le Sumter Ar 12 01 3 03 Summerton Junction 1157 317 ' Tindal 1125 3 30 Packs ville ] 100 4 05 Silver 10 35 *40 M?lard ?j-g 5 00 Summerton 9 47 5 45 Davis 9 34 6 00 Jordan 9 22 6 45 *Ar Wilson's Mill Le 9 05 p m am Between Millard and St Paul. 73 75 STATIONS 72 74 pm am am pm 4 15 9 52 Lo Millard Ar 1015 4 40 4 20 10_ 02 ?Ar St Paul Le 10 05 4 30 Between Sumter and Camden. Southbound Trains._Northbound Trains. 69 71 STATIONS 70" 68 pm am am pm 6 36 10 20 *Le Sumter Ar 9 00 o45 6 38 10 02 NW Junction 8 58 5 43 6 58 1022 Dalzell 8 25 5 12 7 16 1032 Borden <*00 4 58 7 36 10 42 Remberts 7 40 4 43 7 4ti 10 47 Ellerbee 7 30 4 38 8 05 11 15 Sou Ry. Jnction 7 10 4 25 3 15 1125 *Ar Camden Le 7 00 4 15 (S C & G Ex Depot) THOS. WILSON. President. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Desjgns Copyrights &c. Anvone sending a sketch r.nd description may qoickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. 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