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

Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, December 13, 1902.

(Mr. Bowen reports that the situation at Caracas is much quieter; that the excitement was caused by the precipitate departure of the British and German ministers, by the arrest of all British and German subjects in Venezuela, and by the capture of Venezuelan naval vessels without declaration of war or blockade.)