721.23/1288
The Colombian Minister (Lozano) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I have to inform Your Excellency, by order of my Government, that, in view of the occurrences which took place on Monday and [Page 484] Tuesday of this week, concerning which I had the honor to inform Your Excellency in my Note No. 62, of the 14th instant,29 my Government ordered our Minister at Lima to submit a formal protest against the aggression to which had been subjected the authority of Colombia and the fleet which was navigating the Putumayo River on the way to Tarapacá, in the territory of Colombia, to reestablish her authority in that place, and he was ordered to ask for his passport.
Likewise, on the 15th instant, the corresponding passports were delivered to His Excellency, the Minister of Peru at Bogotá and the other members of the Peruvian Legation at Bogotá.
At the same time the exequaturs of the Peruvian consuls were canceled by my Government.
I take [etc.]
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