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. 774/572.

Minister Beaupré to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
The Hague, February 2, 1909.

No. 103.]

Sir: I have the honor to state that on receipt of the department’s cablegram of the 27th ultimo,¹ I immediately advised the minister for foreign affairs that the Governments of Italy and Austria-Hungary had been invited to participate in the deliberations of the Internationl Opium Conference at Shanghai and that his excellency has this day acknowledged the receipt of said advice.

I am, etc.,

A. M. Beaupré.

1. See telegram of Jan. 26 to Ambassador Reid.