Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — THE RUSSO-JAPANESE PEACE COMMISSIONERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE PEACE COMMISSIONERS.

The principal envoys who will discuss and arrange the terms upon which Japan and Russia shall cease hostilities are grouped in the illustration, in which also is shown the building in the Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard in which the plenipotentiaries will meet. Baron Joturo Komtvra is the minister of foreign affairs of Japan. He was educated at Harvard University, has served as special envoy to Peftln, and also has been minister to Korea. More recently he was minister of the Mikado at Washington and St. Petersburg. Sergius Juliewitch Witte has been president of the Russian committee of ministers since 1903, and at the head of the railway department, and in 1892 was minister or means of communication. ite-was opposed to the war, and

is noted as a student of finance and economy. Kogoro'Takahira has been Japanese minister at Washington since 1900. Prior to that time he had been attache of the legation and consul general at New York. He entered the diplomatic service in 187 G, and was minister to Italy and the Netherlands and ambassador at Vienna. Baron Roman Roina'novitch Rosen was recently appointed Russian ambassador to the United State's in succession to Count Cassini. lie was minister at Tokio when the war broke out, and was consul general at New York from 1882 until 1894. He speaks several languages and,in addition is known as an accomplished, scholar .and musician.