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 10, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that he has had an interview with President Castro and secured the release of the consul-general of Germany, the chancellor of the German legation, and several aged Germans. He also requested the release of all the other prisoners, to which request President Castro promised a reply within twenty-four hours.

Two hundred and fifty sailors landed at La Guaira, rescued some British subjects, and took them aboard British war vessel.

The British residents of Caracas are Mr. Bowen’s guests at the legation.)