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

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Port au Prince, September 3, 1902.

(Mr. Powell reports that Admiral Killick searched a German vessel on September 2, and took from her goods consigned to Cape Haitien for the Haitian Government; that the chargé d’affaires of Germany has cabled to his Government for instructions to seize the Crête; that the search was made 40 miles from the cape; that the German naval vessel Panther is expected to arrive September 4.)