Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Loomis to Mr. Ehrman.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 4, 1903. (Sent 12.02 p.m.)

Communicate with commander of gunboat Bogotá and state plainly that this Government, being responsible for maintaining peace and keeping transit open across Isthmus, desires him to refrain from wantonly shelling the city. We shall have a naval force at Panama in two days, and are now ordering men from the Nashville to Panama in the interests of peace.

Loomis.