File No. 774/408.
Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.
London, November 13, 1908.
Sir: With reference to various instructions of the department regarding the International Opium Commission, which is to meet at Shanghai on the 1st of January next, I have the honor to inform you that the following gentlemen will represent the British Government on the commission: The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G. C. M. G., late governor of Straits Settlements, representing the Crown colonies; Sir Alexander Hosie, acting commercial attaché to His Majesty’s legation at Peking, representing the foreign office; Mr. Mackenzie King, minister of labor, representing Canada; Mr. James Bennett Brunyate, acting financial secretary to the Government of India, representing India; Mr. Laidlaw, M. P., nonofficial delegate; and an assessor from Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, respectively.
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