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

Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas , December 2, 1902 .

(Mr. Bowen states that it seems to him the questions at issue can be satisfactorily settled diplomatically by Germany and by arbitration by Great Britain without rupture of relations.

Mr. Bowen requests permission to use his good offices in an endeavor to prevent rupture of relations.)