File No. 774/123–124.
The Acting Secretary of State to Minister O’Brien.
Washington,October 16, 1907.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the embassy’s No. 416, with which was inclosed copy of a note from the foreign office in which it is stated that the department of home affairs is desirous of being informed of the views of this Government as to the place of meeting and other arrangements regarding the proposed opium conference.
You may inform the Japanese Government that the United States has already requested of the various powers interested in the conference an expression of their views in this connection, and that it awaits with interest the suggestions of the Imperial Japanese Government as to the time and place of meeting of the conference.
I am, etc.,