Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 774/429.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.¹

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 3, 1908.

(Mr. Root instructs Mr. Reid to inform the British Government that since the Powers participating in the coming Opium Conference at Shanghai, in deference to China’s wishes, have consented to postpone the meeting, that body will convene February first instead of January first, 1909. Asks Mr. Reid to express to the Foreign Office appreciation and gratification at, the concurrence in the Chinese suggestion.)

1. Mutatis mutandis to Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, Tokyo, The Hague, Lisbon, Peking, Bangkok, and Teheran.