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. 2136/349.

The Secretary of State to Minister Furniss.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 5, 1908.

Mr. Root informs Minister Furniss that in the absence of naval vessel of any European power having interests in Haiti, and upon urgent occasion or request for protection, the American naval forces will afford temporary protection and refuge from immediate violence in the same manner as to American citizens and interests similarly menaced.