Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Russia’s Great Diplomat. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Russia’s Great Diplomat.

Count Arthur de Cassini, the Russian ambassador, who declares that Russia has no Intention of absorbing

Mongolia, is a diplomat who is thoroughly acquainted with the country now in dispute between Great Britain and the government of the czar. He came to Washington in 1897 as plenipotentiary, and was subsequently raised to the rank of ambassador by the emperor. For five years previously to his arriving in America he was the czar’s representative at Pekin, and It was through his negotiations that Russia acquired its vast power in China after the war with Japan.

COUNT CASSINI.