File No. 774/123–124.
Chargé Dodge to the
Secretary of State.
American Embassy,
Tokyo,September 18,
1907.
No. 416.]
Sir: Referring to Mr. Wright’s dispatch No. 195
of March 19 last,a in
regard to a proposed investigation of the opium trade and the opium
habit in the Far East, I have the honor to inclose to you herewith a
copy of an English translation of a communication from Count Hayashi,
minister for foreign affairs, dated the 17th instant, No. 73. This
communication states that as it has been decided in the cabinet council
that the Imperial Government would be pleased to indorse the proposal
advanced by the President of the United States, the department of home
affairs are desirous of being first informed of the views of the United
States Government as to the place of meeting and other arrangements
regarding the intended conference.
I am accordingly requested to refer this matter to you so that I may be
able to furnish the information desired.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Chargé Dodge.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Tokyo,September 17, 1907.
No. 73.]
Monsieur le Charge d’affaires: In reference
to His Excellency Luke E. Wright’s note, F. O. No. 89, under date of
the 12th March last, relative to
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convoking an international conference to
consider the establishment of an international commission to study
the propagation of the bubonic plague and to concert measures for
combatting it, to which note I hastened to reply by my note, No. 19,
dated the 28th March, I beg to state that a communication has now
been received from the authorities concerned, the department of home
affairs, to the effect that as it has been decided in the cabinet
council that the Imperial Government would be pleased to indorse the
proposal advanced by the President of the United States, the said
authorities are desirous to be first informed of the views of the
United States Government as to the place of meeting and other
arrangrements regarding the intended conference. I, therefore, have
to request that you will be so good as to refer the matter to your
Government, to the end that I may be further informed on the
subject.
Accept, etc.,
