Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 4478/3.

Chargé Wilson to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Buenos Aires, October 5, 1907.

(Mr. Wilson states that the situation in the Province of Corrientes is serious, but confined to that Province, and that several fights have taken place between the revolutionary and government forces. Informs Mr. Root that Las Palmas, a steamer belonging to an American citizen, has been seized by the revolutionists and that he has requested the Government to take the necessary measures for its return. Says that the revolutionists have taken two boats belonging to Italian subjects.)