Mr. Choate to Mr.
Hay.
American Embassy,
London, February 19,
1903.
No. 1066.]Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith
copies of an extract from the London Gazette of the 17th instant, which
I have received from the foreign office, containing a notification
announcing that the blockade of the ports of La Guayra, Carenero,
Guanta, Cumana, Carupano, and the mouths of the Orinoco, by a British
naval force, which was established on the 20th of December, 1902, has
been raised from midnight, 14th–15th February.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
[Extract from the
London Gazette of Tuesday, February 17,
1903.]
Foreign Office, February 17, 1903.
It is hereby notified that the Marquis of Lansdowne, K. G., His
Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has
received, through the lords commissioners of the admiralty, a
telegraphic dispatch from Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas,
commander in chief on the North America and West Indies station,
announcing that he has issued a notification to the effect that the
blockade of the ports of La Guayra, Carenero, Guanta, Cumana,
Carupano, and the mouths of the Orinoco, by a British naval force,
established on the 20th of December, 1902 (of which notice was given
in the London Gazette of that date), is raised from midnight,
14th–15th February.
Note.—Continuation of this correspondence
and negotiations at The Hague will appear in the volume of Foreign Relations for 1904.
