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. 774/225D.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador O’Brien.¹

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 20, 1908.

(Mr. Adee directs Mr. O’Brien to inform the minister for foreign affairs that the President has appointed Hon. Thomas Burke, Dr. Hamilton Wright, and Dr. Charles D. Tenney American commissioners, joint international commission, to investigate opium in the Far East.)

1. Repeated to France, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Portugal, and China.