File No. 774/682.
Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.
London, November 29, 1909.
Sir: With reference to the department’s circular instruction of the 1st of September last (file No. 774), I have the honor to inform you that I communicated a copy of the circular in question to the foreign office, in reply to which I have received a note stating that the Government of India is being consulted in regard to the proposal put forward by the Government of the United States for an international conference at The Hague to conventionalize the resolutions adopted by the Shanghai Opium Commission.
The note further states that it seems doubtful, however, whether they will be able to furnish their views on the subject until they have examined and considered the report of the Shanghai commission, which can only have reached them quite recently, and some little time may therefore elapse before their reply is received.
I have, etc.,