File No. 774/769.

The Netherlands Chargé to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]
No. 659.]

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to advise your excellency that an international conference for the regulation of the opium trade will be held at The Hague on September 15 next.

Having been instructed by the Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands to ask the Government of the United States to take part in that conference, I venture to have recourse, to that end, to your excellency’s obliging interposition.

I embrace, etc.,

M. de Weede.