The Calumet news., 1911-10-05
HIS WIFE AN AMERICAN.
Russian Diplomatist 10 Adjust Delicate
Questions With u. S.

Washington. oct 5.-Geoorge Bakh-
Imetieff, appointed as Russian ambassa-
dor to the United States 10 succeed
Baron Rosen. is well known in Wash
ington, where many years ago he was
one of the Russian secretaries of le-
cation. He married a daughter of the
late General Edward +. Beale and Is a
brother-in-law Of Truxton Beale and
Mrs. John r. Mclean. He has made
a brilliant record I'm the field Of diplo-
macy, marked by frequent promotion
Nj. Bakhmetieff first met his future wife
while he was secretary Of the Russian
legation here The marriage took
place i'm Vienna during General Beales
term of service there as United States
minister GS75-7O. When NJ. Bakhme-
tieh was Russian diplomatic agent at
Sofia, bulgaria, he and his wife great
~ helped Minister Leishman. then al
Constantinople, TO liberate Miss Ellen
NJ. Stone, an American missionary.
from the bandits who abducted her.
The Czar selected Mime. Bakhmetieff
10 distribute his gifts of money to the
Macedonian refugees. For her beneh-
cient services of succoring the refugees
the czar and Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia decorated her, and the sultan
honored her with The grand Gordon of
the order of the Chefekat She also
wears. the badge Of the Red Cross and
the Russian order of Palestine.
The new ambassadors work will
have TO do with the adjustment Of del
icate questions pending between st.
Petersburg and Washington. Familiar
as he is with every phase OF the sub
jects in hand, from knowledge gained
by service In st. Petersburg and Toxic.
and being no stranger to diplomatic
routine i'm Washington, he takes up af-
fairs with the state department with a
grasp and confidence that betoken sure
and satisfying results.
1t Is the czar's earnest desire It is
understood, to clear up every important
point involving the relations Of the two
countries In the Far East. intricate
questions growing out of the unsettled
conditions for several years existing i'm
that quarter. on a basis OF negotiations
which will insure the premanency of "A
traditional friendship that has never
had a break.
The United States is party also to
the relations between Russia and China
in Manchuria and Mongolia, involving
trade and territorial disputes of long
standing and complicated character.
These controversies have bearing on
our own commercial interests in Asia,
and hence their adjudication has ma
terial. as well as a sentimental, inter-
est for the United States.
Since leaving Washington. where he |
is most pleasantly remembered i'm So |
cIal and diplomatic circles, NJ. Bakh- |
metieff has been raised to the highest |
rank in the service. and filled the post |
Of ambassador to Japan. II was at To- |
kio that his intimate knowledge of the |
Far Eastern question was gained. and |
ne is, therefore, fully prepared TO dis
cuss the tangled situation in northern
China. growing out Of the war between |
Russia and Japan. Here again Amer
lean aspirations ran counter TO the
program Of the new regime, and per-
iaps differences arising at that time
and left for future negotiations may be
taken up between the new ambassador
lnd Secretary Knox. NJ. Bakhmetien
IS perhaps the one man OF Russia's
many able statesmen and diplomats to
bring the two nations closer together
lnd win friends for Russia and its peo-
pie i'm the western republic.