Mr. Meyer to Mr. Hay.
Rome, January 19, 1903.
(Mr. Meyer reports that the minister for foreign affairs has informed him, in a note dated January 17, that the Italian ambassador at Washington has been instructed to place himself in communication with Mr. Bowen as soon as the latter arrives, in order to settle the Venezuelan claims directly or to arrange preliminaries for reference to the court at The Hague, having previously consulted with the British and German ambassadors and the Secretary of State.
The Italian minister for foreign affairs adds that these instructions assume that President Castro has accepted the conditions transmitted in Mr. Meyer’s telegram of January 7.)