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. 774/98.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking , July 24, 1907 .

(Mr. Rockhill states that, after further oral and written representations to the foreign office in reference to the opium commission, that he received to-day a note by which the Government of China accepts in principle joint commission, with the understanding that each government make investigation in its own territory on the lines agreed upon by the whole commission.)