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 23, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the minister for foreign affairs says that Venezuelan war ships are compelled by the Venezuelan code to capture as contraband any ship not duly cleared by Venezuelan consuls.)