Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 2126/316.

The Secretary of State to Minister Furniss.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 23, 1908.

Mr. Root acknowledges his telegram of November 21, and directs Mr. Furniss to convey to the Haitian Government the usual notice that blockade must be proclaimed and maintained by an adequate force in order to be respected.