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

Mr. Loomis to Baron von Sternburg.

[Personal.]

Department of State,
Washington, March 13, 1903.

My dear Mr. Minister: Referring to Mr. Adee’s personal note of the 8th instant, informing you of the receipt of a telegram from the United States chargé d’affaires at Caracas announcing the blockade of certain ports by the Venezuelan Government, I have the honor to say that I have received a further telegram from Mr. Russell, dated the 12th instant, in which he requests me to inform you that “the blockade decree of the 7th has been revoked since yesterday.”

I am, etc.

Francis B. Loomis,
Acting Secretary of State.