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

Mr. Adee to Baron von Sternburg.

[Personal.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 8, 1903.

Dear Mr. Minister: I have received this morning a cable message from our chargé d’affaires at Caracas, communicating the notification made by the Venezuelan Government to him as the temporary representative of Great Britain, Germany, and The Netherlands, that the blockade of the Orinoco River, which was declared on the 28th of June last, is reestablished from March 7, and that the ports of Carupano and Guanta are blockaded from the same date, the same number of day’s of grace being allowed as in the former decree.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.