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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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