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. 6292/131.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 11, 1908.

Mr. Adee acknowledges telegram of September 2, and informs Mr. O’Brien that Commissioner Loomis sailed September 8, and may stop a week in Honolulu, from whence he will sail on the Mongolia. Mr. Adee says Mr. Loomis has personal rank corresponding to that of minister plenipotentiary, which office he formerly held.