Chargé Hutchinson to the Secretary of State.
Caracas, November 5, 1904.
Sir: I have the honor to confirm my telegram of to-day, reading as follows:
Notify New York and Bermudez Company, Philadelphia, the Venezuelan Government has stopped the last two cables in cipher from their manager. Shall I take any action?
Hutchinson.
And the Department’s reply of to-day, reading as follows:
No action necessary at present.
Loomis.
I sent the telegram in question because for the second time the manager of the New York and Bermudez Company complained to me that his cables, even in cipher, are being stopped by the fiscal. Upon his first complaint I advised the Department in my No. 349, of October 19, at the conclusion of the dispatch, that Mr. Wright’s cables were being interfered with, and inclosed papers to prove the fact.
Upon his second complaint, I sent my telegram of this morning’s date.
In accord with the Department’s instructions, this legation will take no action in relation thereto for the present.
I have, etc.,