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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Bowen.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 10, 1902.

(Mr. Hay states that communications addressed to the British and German representatives should be forwarded to them by Mr. Bowen through the United States consul at La Guaira; that communications addressed directly to Mr. Bowen should be cabled in substance to the Department of State, but that Mr. Bowen may inform the British and German ministers of their purport.)