The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Finch.
[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington, April 17, 1905.
Washington, April 17, 1905.
(As the Department would greatly regret if complications arose from the seizure of the Canadian schooner Agnes G. Donahoe by the Uruguayan authorities, Mr. Loomis instructs Mr. Finch to use all proper endeavors to bring about peaceable and friendly settlement of the controversy between Uruguay and Great Britain.)