Show I LAST OF EARTH fOR I MARQUIS KO I II I JAPANESE JAPAS STATESMAN I I Former to the I United States Dies in Capital of Japan I H L L MARQUIS KOMURA Komura ex minister ox-minister minister of foreign affairs and privy councilor died this morn morn- mornin in Marquis Komura ex minister of foreign for eign affairs and former em to Great Brita YI was wall born bom in 1855 After Atter graduating from the imperial sits sits' he lie was sent cent to Il Harvard as s one of ot the first batch of of f. f students to be bo educated edu at the the- expense of the govern overn government ment Tn To he hm was appointed se see see- retal to th the for foreign ign and shortly afterward ard was promoted to be director r of the translation bureau Until the eve of the outbreak of the Japa nose nese war in in 1894 1804 he was wall charge daf af faires fains ht at Pekin In Tune 1890 he lie a assumed the post of vice vie minister l of foreign n affairs and andin andin andin in 1893 was transferred ed to Wa Washington as as' as Japanese ambassador In 1900 1906 1900 he lie was sent to St t. t Petersburg in in a similar simi similar simi simi- lar capacity and later represented Japan Ja fit fit- pan at the international conference fol fol- fol lowing the boxer trouble at Pekin Pel In Iii 1001 1901 ho he accepted the foreign n portfolio portfolio portfolio port port- folio in hi the Kataura cabinet and anti was closely concerned in th the conclusion of the i first Anglo agreement which was waR followed by tIn the negotiations with Hn sia which culminated in the war S His name will also be remembered a as Japans Japan's rl chief ef pl plenipotentiary at st the tbt Port Portsmouth m uth peace conference for his part in nr negotiating the time second Anglo Anglo- n lo- lo Japanese treaty find and the Chino Japa nese negotiations which pre wern n a corollary corollary corol orol lary lan of the thin treaty of peace lIe He was wab created p a count Lount in hi and anti was made a marquis in April of this year 1 |