WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.
Court of St. James; b. Sept., 1855, at Hyuga. Educ.: Harvard Uni- versity, U.S.A. Appointed Sec- retary, Foreign Office, 1884; later Assistant Director of Translation
Bureau, Foreign Office; Chargé Al'Affaires at Peking until ontbreak of Chino-Japanese War; Civil Ad- ministrator of Antung during War; 1894-1895; later Director of Political
Bureau; Minister at Seoul, until
1893; Vice-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, 1896-1898; Minister, at Washington, 1898; Minister, at St. Petersburg, 1900; transferred to Peking to represent Japan at In- ternational Conference in connec
tion with Boxer trouble; Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Sept., 1901;
created Baron, 1902, Senior Peace
Plenipotentiary at Peace Con- ference, Portsmouth, 1965; signed
Treaty of Peace, Sept., 1905; after- wards signed, at Peking, Treaty with China regarding ante-bellum settlement in Manchuria, 1906; appointed to Privy Council, 1906;
appointed Minister 10 Great Britain, May, 1936. Address : Tokyo,
Japan.
KONDO, Rempei (Tokyo), President
of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.); b. 1850: Upon formation of the Company was appointed a Director; became Vice- President during China-Japanese War, and finally became President. Decoration: 4th Order of the Rising Sun, granted for transport service. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
KONO, Hironaka (TOKYO), M.P.; b. July, 1849, at Fukushima. Joined
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party which strove for establish-
ment of constitutional Government
in 1881 has been M. P. without
intermission since first session of
Diet; President of Lower House,
1903; arrested as instigator of Anti-Peace Riots in Tokyo, Sept:,
1905, but was acquitted. Address:
Tokyo, Japan.
KO PAO-HUA (PEKING ), President, Board of Punishments; native of Chekiang; metropolitan graduate,
1883.
Deputy Commissioner, Office of Transmission, Nov., 1895;
sub-Director, Court of Sacrificial Worship, July, 1896; sub-Director, Court Imperial Entertainments, 1898; Vice-Director, Imperial Clan Court, July, 1898; Vice-President, Censorate, Dec., 1898; senior Vice- President, Board of War, May, 1899; President, Board of Works Nov., 1901; do., Board of Punish- ments, Feb., 1902.
KORFF, A. (SHANGHAI), Merchant. Representative, Melchers and Co. Address: 1 French Bund, Shanghai,
China.
KRANZ, Rev. Paul (SHANGHAI),
Pastor; b. Mar. 13, 1866; m. 1894;
Educ.: Halberstadt, and Univer- sities of Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Tübingen, Greisswald. Entered University in 1884; Pastor in Ger- many, 1890-91; came to China as Pastor of German Church in Shanghai in 1892 and devoted him- self to literary work amongst Chinese. Publications: "Confucins
and Christ, Friends," "A Christian Commentary to the Chinese Four Books," "Four thousand frequent
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