Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Bowen reports that the German legation was attacked by a mob on the night of December 9. Mr. Bowen went at once to the governor [Page 791] and obtained police protection for German and British legations, and a promise that no further attacks would be made by mobs.

Mr. Bowen visited the police station and talked with the prisoners, who number 54—44 Germans and 10 British—some of whom were so poor Mr. Bowen relieved their needs. Four are ill, and Mr. Bowen expects to secure their immediate liberation.

Mr. Bowen understands that all British and Germans in Venezuela have been arrested, and states that he will see President Castro and urge him to release them all at once.)