26 DECEMBER 1908, Page 2

These two arrests appear to have broken the back of

the plot. General Gomez next issued a proclamation justifying his action, and declaring his intention of finding a decorous and pacific solution of the country's international disputes. No doubt anything may happen in a South American Republic, and unless there is some very sudden reaction we may, we think, consider President Castro's career at an end. We can hardly doubt that be was in a sense prepared for such an event. South American Presidents when they are absent are sure to be in the wrong. The telegrams add that President Castro's "unlimited letter of credit" has been cancelled ; but it is not likely that the ex-President, as we suppose we must now call him, has failed to make prudent provision against such an event.