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. 774/636–637.

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]

American Legation,
Peking, May 21, 1909.

No. 1162.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith copy in translation of a note received to-day from the Wai-wu Pu conveying its hearty thanks to the American Government for its assistance in this matter.

I presume that a similar note has been sent to each of the other powers represented on the commission.

I have, etc.,

W. W. Rockhill.

The Ministers of the Foreign Office to Minister Rockhill.

[Translation.]

Foreign Office,
Peking, May 20, 1909.

Your Excellency; In the first moon of this year, when the International Opium Commission was held at Shanghai, the American Government took the lead in sending delegates, who, in consultation with the delegates of other nations, passed nine resolutions calculated to be of great assistance to China in the work of suppressing opium.

We now write to express the hearty thanks of the Chinese Government to the American Government, and beg Your Excellency to convey this expression of thanks to Your Excellency’s Government.

We wish Your Excellency prosperity.

(Signed) Prince of Ch’ing.

Shih-hsu.

Liang Tun-yen.

Lien-fang.

Tsou Chia-lai.