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 12, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the British and Germans at Caracas are very nervous; that he has obtained the keys of the British legation and put it under the care of the secretary of the legation of the United States; that in case of trouble British residents will go to the British legation and the Germans will all go to the United States legation; that the German legation is occupied by the wife of the German chargé d’affaires, who is ill.

Mr. Bowen has asked the commander of the Marietta to send an officer to assist him in his work, and has suggested that the Marietta take on board British and Germans who wish to leave Venezuela.)