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I feel that I can not sufficiently strongly represent 

 to the Department the grossness of this outrage and 

 the insult to our dignity, even apart from the sav- 

 agery of the threat. 



Very respectfully, 



JOHN HUBBARD, 

 Commander, U. S. Navy, 



Commanding. 

 THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, 



Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 



In his letter of November 8 Commander Hubbard 

 sets forth the facts more in detail: 



U. S. S. NASHVILLE, THIRD RATE, 

 Porto Bella, U. S. Colombia, November 8, 1903 



SIR: i. I have the honor to make the following 

 report of the occurrences which took place at Colon 

 and Panama in the interval between the arrival of 

 the Nashville at Colon on the evening of November 

 2, 1903, and the evening of November 5, 1903, 

 when by the arrival of the U. S. S. Dixie at Colon 

 I was relieved as senior officer by Commander F. H. 

 Delano, U. S. Navy. 



2. At the time of the arrival of the Nashville at 

 Colon at 5.30 P.M. on November 2 everything on 

 the Isthmus was quiet. There was talk of proclaim- 

 ing the independence of Panama, but no definite ac- 

 tion had been taken and there had been no disturb- 

 ance of peace and order. At daylight on the morn- 

 ing of November 3 it was found that a vessel which 

 had come in during the night was the Colombian 



