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 8, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the British minister has requested him to take charge of British interests, and the German minister has requested him to take charge of German interests; and that both ministers have just left Caracas.

Mr. Bowen has sent a note to the Venezuelan Government asking for permission to comply with the above requests.)