Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.

Department of State,
Washington , November 24, 1906 .

No. 342.]

Sir: The department has received with gratification your No. 283, of the 8th instant, reporting, with reference to the department’s No. 297, of September 27, the British Government’s favorable reception, with the condition stated in your dispatch, of this Government’s suggested invitation to the Chinese Government to join with the United States, together with Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Japan, in a common investigation of the opium question.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon,
Acting Secretary.