. Review of reviews and world's work. BARON KENTARO KANEKO. (Baron Kaneko, a samurai, and a distinguished member ofthe Japanese House of Peers, has just made a tour of theUnited States for the purpose of studying economic condi-tions and of reporting to his government on the advanceof American machinery as exhibited at St. Louis. BaronKaneko graduated from the Harvard Law School in , he became professor of law in the Imperial Univer-sity, at Tokio, and then one of the secretaries of the For-eign Department of the empire, rising to the position ofminister of state for agriculture and
. Review of reviews and world's work. BARON KENTARO KANEKO. (Baron Kaneko, a samurai, and a distinguished member ofthe Japanese House of Peers, has just made a tour of theUnited States for the purpose of studying economic condi-tions and of reporting to his government on the advanceof American machinery as exhibited at St. Louis. BaronKaneko graduated from the Harvard Law School in , he became professor of law in the Imperial Univer-sity, at Tokio, and then one of the secretaries of the For-eign Department of the empire, rising to the position ofminister of state for agriculture and commerce. He hasalso been chief secretary of the House of Peers and minis-ter of justice.) oversubscrib-ed, and pricesadvanced to96. A secondpopular loanof$50,000,000was issued at95, payable infive years, at 5per cent. Thiswas also heav-ily oversub-scribed. TheRussian bondsfor $160,000,-000, at 5 percent, interest,payable in1909, are ex-empt from all MULAI-ABD-EL-AZIZ, SULTAN OF MOROCCO, taxation. llllS. loan was raised largely in France. The creditof Japan is high, as she has always been re-garded as a good debtor. She has only beenborrowing on government bonds since 1870, andall her obligations have been met strictly ontime, on a number of noteworthy occasionsbefore maturity. Russian credit has alwaysbeen good, but Russians power to borrow must,it would seem, depend in a large degree uponher internal stability—of which some dubiousreports are now reaching us. The cost of thewar will undoubtedly greatly depress the pro-ductive power in both countries. It comes as an odd coincidence thatne Kidnaping & United States naval commander, in Morocco. , with United States war vessels, shouldbe carrying out in Morocco, in the first yearsof the twentieth century, what an Americancommander, with American ships of war, wasdoing in the opening years of the 1804, Captain Decatur attacked and chas-
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