Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 774/79–81.

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington,June 19, 1907.

(Mr. Root states that the department desires to know definitely whether the Government of China will join the Governments of the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, and Japan in appointing commissioners cooperatively to investigate the question of opium in China, including the subjects of both importation and production there. Adds that other Governments, excepting France, have already accepted this proposal.)