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. 774/634–635.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Fletcher.

Department of State,
Washington, July 12, 1909.

Sir: The department acknowledges the receipt of the legation’s No. 1163, of May 21, 1909, inclosing a translation of a memorial recently submitted by the viceroy of Yunnan on the subject of the prompt suppression of opium cultivation and the creation of a new source of revenue, such as the opening of the mines, in its place.

The department has read the dispatch and its inclosures with interest.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.