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FOREIGN OFFICE,
July
20 JUL 08'
1908.
Proposed Commission to American Ambassador.
Your Excellency:-
With reference to Your Excellency's note of May 4th last communicating to me the suggestions of the United States Government as to the constitution, scope, procedure and time and place of meeting of the proposed International Opium Commission at Shanghai, China, I have the honour to state that His Majesty's Government accept with pleasure the proposal that the Joint Commission shall meet at Shanghai. They propose to nominate as British Delegates:-
1. Sir A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul-General at Chengtu and Acting Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Legation in China.
2.