Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 774/544a.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Reid.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 26, 1909.

Mr. Bacon informs Mr. Reid that Italy and Austria-Hungary lave been invited to participate in International Opium Commission, and instructs him to so inform the embassies at Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and the legations at Lisbon, The Hague, and Teheran.