Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

File No. 511. 4A1/927.

The Secretary of State to Minister Calhoun.¹

Department of State,
Washington, December 7, 1910.

Sir: The department desires you to inform the minister for foreign affairs that, according to information received from the American ambassador at London, the Government of Great Britain will institute compulsory declaration on January 1, next, in regard to the quantities and value of imports and exports of morphine and cocaine in accordance with the proposals of that Government that the interested Governments make a study of the manufacture and trade of these drugs before the meeting of the International Opium Conference.

I am, etc.,

P. C. Knox.

1. Similar instructions sent to the American embassies at Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rome, and Tokyo and the American legations at Lisbon, Teheran, and Bangkok.