File No. 774/60.
Ambassador Wright
to the Secretary of State.
American Embassy,
Tokyo,March 29,
1907.
No. 205.]Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 195 of the
19th instant,a I have to
inform you that I have received to-day a communication
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from the imperial foreign office in reply
to the inquiry contained in your dispatch No. 65 of January 31 last
(file No. 774), as to whether the Japanese Government would be willing
to join in a conference on the opium question, or whether, if another
course were deemed more convenient and practicable, it would be prepared
to name a commissioner who, in concert with like commissioners of the
other powers named, would investigate the subject. This reply states
that “the Japanese Government would have no objection to either course,
if taken, of convening the international conference or of naming the
commissioner, when each of the governments above mentioned “(i. e., of
France, Germany, and The Netherlands) “will have consented thereto.”
While inclosing a copy of the English translation which was inclosed with
this communication of the foreign office,
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Ambassador Wright.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Tokyo,March 27, 1907.
No. 18.]Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note under date of the
8th instant, stating to the effect that the inquiries made by the
United States Government toward the end of last year about the views
of the Imperial Government and of the British Government, relative
to the limitation and suppression of the opium traffic, having
elicited favorable replies from these Governments as to the
investigation on the subject, your excellency’s Government have made
further injuiries of the Governments of France, Germany, and the
Netherlands as to whether they would join in an international
conference on the question or whether, if another course were deemed
more covenient and practical, each of the Governments would be
prepared to name a commissioner who would undertake to investigate
the subject. Your excellency now makes a similar inquiry as to the
views of the Imperial Government on the question.
In reply, I beg leave to state that the Japanese Government would
have no objection to either course being taken of convening the
international conference or of naming the commissioner, when each of
the Governments above mentioned will have consented thereto.
I avail, etc.,
