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. 774/562.

Bishop Brent to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Shanghai, February 1, 1909.

Informs the department that he has been unanimously elected chairman of the opium commission on nomination of Great Britain and China. Says, contrary to expectations, viceroy advocated Chinese monopoly and revision of treaties; that the session opened with general good feeling, and that the last Hague rules were practically adopted by committee on rules and order.