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M?! f0k) MAP OF KOREA, MANCHURIA AND JAPAN, THE FAR EAST'S ZONE OF TROUBLE.
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(JEKEHAL Kl'MOPATKIN.
war. He baa -rvud tlilrty-flve years
In the army nrwl cutntnaiMln about
JS,Xt,aJ0 nx-n In time of LotintV.
A BRAINY JAPANESE.
Bnron Kouiura, Japan's elirt-wd mln
Utvr of ffiroltin uftulrs. Is a graduate
Th !r.-i. trlf r" point abown on the map la the Korean atrait, which la itiiminafcvl by Japan because of her trrm flotit and hnr fiirttflcatlima on the Tsu let&nila. ral l
ay htneon Japan arvl Kiirni. The etraU at thla point la only 100 mllra wt1e, arvl rnmmunlcatlon by water Ix'twwn VludlviMlidL. cm the north, and Fort ArU:ur. ixi the
rel a.-hroiu-'h It VVrtivtiet Is tavbnxwl In wln4-. but Rueale'a ri.iniie. mm port. Port Arthur, la not. The Japanese wruwtixl port Arthur fn.m t'hlna. but Huwia
nuub thrm cvtumane. Pur Arthur la one ni V.tm uthern tvrmlul of the CMnm Utiiitera railroad, which, running north, ronn-ts with the TrHnaHtberlan raUroad. ovor
wklrh Itiisabt'a trf pm have ben paanlnar for wwefca en route to Manciiurla. The Japantse railroad from Fuaan. Korra. to Henul la tx-in ooni4'tl by the Jun.me giw
eminent for wnrtttua tma, and a Je4atHe roail rune h.4 erwn Bvoul and Chemulpo. The railroad front Seoul to W lju la not reaity tur uaa. The Jupanuae liare rail cjn
awniciUlun ixutlcaily the entire Ivntrth of their principal lalanda.
"CZAR OF THE EAST."
AlPxWeflf. rtc adiulrnl of ltutwla'e
novy. Is the crur'a rl(bt hand nmn In
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BADOK JIT A HO KOMt71tA.
ef Harvard, a lawyer and an e xpcrlrno
rd diplomat A few y-ars airo he wa
JupuncMp mliiUtor to the Vnltfd Statra.
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THE MIKADO.
MDtauhlto. Japan's progressive raVt,
a Amended the throne In lteM, at tbe Ag
of alxt(n, and alnce then ba trana
VICE HOT ALXXEIEFr.
the far euot In ilaix-burUt and Si
beria he ta In romntnud f die army and
navy and at the bfiMl of civil affairs.
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PORT ARTHUR, RUSSIA'S GREAT STRONGHOLD IN CHINA.
The Japanew bitterly ret tbe fact that Iluaala hold Tort Arthur. They
raptured it from the? Cftinoiep, bnt nussta compeilt-d them to evacuate terauM
tat wanted it barsaif. It la weU fortified.
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MUTWCIIITO, KMFCHOB OF JAPAN.
ftJHnod hla country from barbarlMin to
the poaltion of a tticroughly up to data
world power.
THE CZAR OP RUSSIA.
The emppror of all the Ruajdaa h 'n
hla thirty -sixth year and baa ruled Hue
sla nine years. Tbe Hague peace trV
EX-PREMIER ITO. !
Marquis Ito, four times premlrt of
Japan, la one of Japan's grvatust
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EMPEROR OF KOREA.
Emperor VI Illung. whose couot'y
run ahI war botwwn China and Japan
lii 1KH-03 and Is the pivunt bone of
contention bt'two-n Japan and RumUo,
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MARqt'IS IIIHUBt'MI ITO.
tatpsmen. He has done as much as
any other man to modernise his coon
try.
A RUSSIAN STATESMAN.
M. le riclive, Rusxlu's mlnlHter of
the Interior, la the moot unpopular tun
tn his country. He has an Iron will, ia
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buna! was his Idea, and he la strongly
In favor of peace so Ions; as It dooa not
prove a barrier In the path of hla t
p Ire's frow th.
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M. D PI. EH VR.
a atrong anti-Semite aod was acensed
of having Inspired tha tuaaaacra of
Jewa at KUhJm-O.
TI IIICKO.
la flfty-one years of ae. He lvame
king In M and emperor In 1SD7. Like
the emperor of C'lilua, he lit a man of
Btthj force and ability.
A RUSSIAN STATESMAN.
Ooimt LnmixlorfT, Hussla'a mlnlati-r
of foreign a (Taint, la a veteran dlplouutt
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and has been very conxplcuona In tha
Degotiations between hla country and
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