JAPANESE PREMIERSHIP
ACCEPTED BY COUNT OKUMA, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Toklo, April 13. Count Okuma has been offered, and lias accepted, tho Premiership. Count Okuma is 'one of the foremost living statesmen; he had charge of the Treasury first as Alec-Minister and then as full Minister, and this post he had to resign 1873-81,' and then formed the Kaishin-to, the forerunner of the present Nationalist Party; ia lfifiS he filled the chair of the Foreign Office and undertook the important task of revising the Treaties, but the , clause in the draft Treaty for' appointing foreign Judges in the Supreme Court, had evoked popular discontent, and his leg suffered severe injury from an assassin's bomb, and had to.be amputated. When the Progressive joined hands with tho second Matsukata Ministry in 1896, the Count re-entered tho Cabinet as Foreign Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce; and ho assumed the Premiership with additional duty as Minister of. Foreign Affairs in the Okuma-Itagaki Coalition ■Ministry.- . In February, 1907, he resigned the leadership of the party.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 7
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