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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL
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No. 1.
[November 16.j
SECTION 4.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 16.) THE American Ambassador presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and, with reference to his note to the Foreign Office of the 5th August last, begs to state that the note in question should read: My Government has named Bishop Brent in the place of the Honourable Thomas Burke as Senior American Commissioner on the Joint International Opium Commission.”
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The name Dr. Charles D. Tenney was the result of a mistranslation of a cypher telegram, and though Dr. Tenney is still one of the American Commissioners he is not the Chief Commissioner, and the Honourable Thomas Burke is no longer a member of the Commission.
The Commission as at present constituted would therefore be as follows:-
Bishop Charles H. Brent, Chief Commissioner.
Dr. Charles D. Tenney.
Dr. Hamilton Wright.
American Embassy, London, November 16, 1908,
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