File No. 774/383B.
The Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.1
Washington, November 6, 1908.
(Mr. Root informs Mr. O’Brien that China, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, Siam, and the United States compose the International Opium Commission, and that Turkey has also been invited. States that as modifying somewhat the suggestions regarding the scope of the present investigation, the Government of the United States further suggests that each commission should be able to inform the whole commission when it assembles in Shanghai, January 1, as to the regulations and restrictions in force at present in its respective country, and to formulate and discuss proposals for amending such regulations in points in which they may be found in the course of the joint inquiry to effect the production, commerce, use, and disadvantages of opium in the Far East.)
- Repeated to Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, Siam, China, and Persia.↩