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 9, 1902 .

(Mr. Bowen reports his impression that the British and German ministers expect him to deliver to them on board their war ships the answers to their notes to the Venezuelan Government, and states that in the absence of instructions to do so or to cable or write directly to Berlin or London he will cable and write to the Department of State only.

Mr. Bowen thinks the Venezuelan Government will address notes to him. If the notes are addressed to the British and German ministers he will deliver them.)