Office of the Historian

Mr. Tower to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin, December 17, 1902.
No. 3.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on Saturday morning, the 13th of December, of your telegram of December 12.

I went at once to the imperial foreign office, where I presented to Doctor von Muehlberg, by whom I was received, a memorandum of the contents of your dispatch, adding that if the Imperial German Government wished to make a reply to the request of the President of Venezuela that the present difficulty respecting the manner of settling claims for injuries to British and German subjects during the insurrection be submitted to arbitration I should have the honor to transmit it to you without delay.

Doctor von Muehlberg, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, answered that he should submit the communication to the Imperial German Government.

Thereupon I telegraphed you to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, which arrived at the same moment with that of similar date relating to the blockade of Venezuelan ports.

I have, etc.,

Charlemagne Tower.