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 14, 1902 .

(Mr. Bowen reports that the British and German war ships did not bombard the town of Puerto Cabello, but the forts; that the cause of the bombardment was an alleged insult to British flag on a British merchant vessel.)