gene: Minister to Sweden.

Farges: Consul General at Basle, Switzerland.

RUSSIA

Nicholas II: Emperor (Czar).

Sazonof: Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Suchomlinof, Vladimir Alexandrovitch: Minister for war. In 1890 at
the age of forty-eight Suchomlinof was made a major general, and in
1904 became commander of Russia's most important military
zone--Kiev. In 1909 he was appointed to the post which he has since
relinquished, and the amazing rapidity with which Russia mobilized
her army in August, 1914, can be accredited to the methods which he
instituted. As a writer he is known as "Shpioa" (Spur), and is the
biographer of Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, and Murat.

Benckendorff, Count A.: Ambassador to Great Britain. Born in Berlin,
August 1, 1849; entered Diplomatic Service, 1869; served at Rome,
Vienna; Minister Copenhagen, 1897-1903; Ambassador London, 1903.

Isvolsky, Alexander P.: Ambassador to France; was Russian negotiator
of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 regarding Persia,
Afghanistan, and Tibet.

Swastopoulo: Charge d'Affaires, France.

Swereiev, S. N.: Ambassador to Germany.

Broniersky, A.: Charge d'Affaires, Germany.

Schebeko, N.: Ambassador to Austria-Hungary.

Koudacheff, Prince Nicholas: Charge d'Affaires, Austria-Hungary.

Salviatti, A.: Consul General at Fiume.

Kazansky: Acting Consul General at Prague.

Strandtman: Charge d'Affaires in Serbia.

BELGIUM

Albert: King of the Belgians.

Davignon, M. J.: Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Elst, van der, Baron: Secretary General.

Renkin, J.: Colonial Minister.

Lalaing H. de, Count: Minister to Great Britain. Entered Foreign
Office, 1879; served Vienna, Bucharest, Berlin, Hague, London;
Minister, Brazil, 1893; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary, Bucharest, 1898; Berne, 1899; London, 1903.

Guillaume, Baron: Minister to France.

Beyens, Baron: Minister to Germany.

De Dudzeele, Errembault, Count: Minister to Austria-Hungary.

De Welle, Michotte, Baron: Minister to Serbia.

Grenier, A., Baron: Minister to Spain.

Fallon, Baron: Minister to Holland.

SERBIA

Peter Karageorgevitch: King.

Pashitch, Nikola P.: Prime Minister. In 1878, at the age of
thirty-two, M. Pashitch entered the Serbian Parliament, and in three
years he became leader of the "Old Radicals." Always a champion of
liberty, he joined the Zayenchar Mutiny of 1883, and, of twenty-two,
he alone escaped execution by flight. Upon