Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, December 14, 1902.

(Mr. Tower reports that he has been informed by the German Government, in reply to the Department’s telegram relating to Venezuelan blockade, that Germany was at first inclined to a pacific blockade, but that Great Britain insisted on establishing a warlike blockade. Consequently Germany has yielded to the wishes of Great Britain, and intends to unite in a joint declaration of a warlike blockade in a few days.

Mr. Tower has been assured by the secretary of state for foreign affairs that Germany at present has no intention whatever to declare war or to proceed beyond the establishment of warlike blockade.)