Show ROOSEVELT RECEIVED FIRST NEWS emperor of russia sends word that he has signed peace treaty st petersburg As graceful mark of appreciation of the part he tool in bringing about the conference at portsmouth and the resultant peace president roosevelt was the first per son to be notified by the hussian gov that emperor nicholas had ratified the peace treaty As soon as the emperors signature bad been at fixed to the instrument and before the treaty had been brought back from Peter hot tor the counter signature of foreign minister lamsdorff the news was sent directly to the president the official notification to the french government according to the foreign office followed several hours later when court lamsdorff bad ed the ratification by his signature |