Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, April 8, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the Venezuelan minister for foreign affairs states that his Government knows nothing about a steamer of the New York and Bermudez Company having been fired upon in San Juan River, and that the act was probably committed by revolutionists.

Mr. Bowen states that the steamer in question is at Trinidad, and suggests that it might be advisable to send a United States war vessel there to investigate. * * *)