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, January 17, 1903.

(Mr. Tower reports that the German minister for foreign affairs has announced to him that the German Government will instruct its representative in Washington to open negotiations with Mr. Bowen as plenipotentiary of Venezuela, but only upon the distinct agreement that the Venezuelan Government first declares itself bound by the three conditions precedent set out in the German memorandum of December 22, 1902.)