Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — COLOMBIA SNUBS KNOX [ARTICLE]

COLOMBIA SNUBS KNOX

Says Officially It Does Not Desire a Visit. Charge d’Affaires of Legation in Washington Gives Out .a Formal Statement. ar Washington, March B.—The Colombian government has issued a statement, which says that it does not want Secretary Knox to visit them on his Central and South American tour. Thus the republic of Colombia, though it recently recalled Senor Ospina, its minister in Washington, has in spirit approved the action which he took in writing a letter to Acting Secretary of State Wilson suggesting that a visit of Secretary Knox to Colombia at this time would be most imopportune. This latest development in this extraordinary situation came in the form of a statement given out by Senor Roberto McDouall, charge d’affaires of the Colombian legation in Washington. Here is his statement: “The charge d’affaires of Colombia said that he was authorized by his government to state that Knox has not been invited to visit Colombia.”