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. 774/651B.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Chargé.¹

Department of State,
Washington, September 21, 1909.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose for your information a copy of a circular² instruction issued to the diplomatic officers of the United States accredited to the Governments which were represented in the Shanghai International Opium Commission, of which the Government of Italy was one.

Accept, etc.,

Huntington Wilson,

1. Sent also to the ambassadors of Japan, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the ministers of Portugal, the Netherlands, Siam, Persia, and China.
2. Supra.