Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Adee to Mr. Powell.

Department of State,
Washington, September 13, 1902.

No. 541.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 11th instant, and confirm my telegram of the same date in reply.

The implied assumption expressed in your telegram that the Provisional Government acted through its agencies at Gonaives in permitting the entry of French and German vessels, is unsound, because that port and its approaches are held by adverse forces.

The argument is therefore illogical as well as irrelevant.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.