OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 540, 22 June 1909, Page 5

OBITUARY

PROFESSOR F. DB MARTENS (By Telegraph —Press Association-Oopyneht) (Roc Juno 7 21, lOSO'pm) St. Petersburg, Jmio 21 Tho death 13 announced of Professor de Martens, tho noted Russian international jurist, ' AN INTERNATIONAL JURIST. Professor Frederick do Martens, the eminent (Russian Professor of International lav,, and a member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration at Tho Hague, was 63 years of age. A nativo o£ Pernau, in tho Russian Baltio provinces, he graduated at .St. Petersburg University, and held honours awarded by Ox-1 , ford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Yah. He had I been a permanent member of the Council of the Eussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1832. He was I Eussian delegate at numerous i ihplomatio congresses and conferences, and was the second Russian plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference at The Hague ■ in 1899 (and again m 1007), and President of the Second Commifaon. In 1689 he was President of the Court of Arbitration m Pans between Great Britain and Venezuela, and he was a Russian delogate at the peace negotiations between Japan and Russia at Washington in 1905. His publications on international law aro numerous, and m 1879 ho published "Eussia and England in Central Asia " SUICIDE OF A DRAMATIST. '(Rec June 21, 10.15 p.m.) ' ' ■ London, June 21. Mr. St. John Hankin, diamatist, commit*e<l suicide in tho rivor Thon, in Wales', fearing that he was becoming a victim to chronic ill-health. , 1 , , • [Mr. St. John Hankin, author and dramatist,' was born at Southampton' on September '25, 1860, and was educated at Mulvern and. llerton College, Oxford , Hβ was for a short time a member of the staff of the "Indian 1 Daily News, and afreiwa,rds worked for "The - Times," and contributed to "Punch," and mveral of tho Teviaws. Among his plays are "Tho Two Mr. Wethorbys," 190,!; ;'Tho Eetnrn of the Prodigal," 1905; "The Charity that Began at Home," 1906; "The Cassilis Engagement." 1907; and "The Last of the Dβ Mullins/MaOS. He translated "Les Trois Filles de M iDupont," b/Bneux, produced by the Stage Society in .