Baron Komura and party left Yokohama yesterday afternoon by the GRI. S. Minnesota. The departure from Shim-hoshi, Tokio, took place at 1.50 p.m. 'The down-town of the city was be-flagged and the send-off at the station was probably more splendid, not to say, bigger, than that on the occasion of the de. parture of the Manchurian Headquarte Staff on the 6th of July last year. The city' deputations assembled outside the station, flying banners and flags, while the platform was quite jammed. The corps plomatique turned out strongly. Marquis Ito, Count Inouye, Count Matsu-Count Katsura, and the Cabinet Ministers went down to Yokohama. Upon the arrival at Yokohama, the distinguished company was escorted by a military guard and civic bodies to the Custom House, where they held an informal reception, at which Governor Sufu wa prominent in proffers of hospitality. fleet launches afterwards conveyed the party from the hatoba to the Minnesota, which was prettily dressed. The bands wore numerous and daylight fireworks added eclat to the occasion, At 4.30 p.m. the Minnesota sailed. The guard-ind. torpedo-boat No. 20 and the Takawo fired a salute of 19 gun:
teamer Yamato Maru with a naval band aboard, specially detailed from the Yokosuka Admiralty, escorted Baron Komura's ship as far as the mouth of Tokio Bay.
The suite of the peace plenipotentiaries includes Mr. A. Sato, Resident Minister en disponsibilité; Mr. ¥, Yamaza, (chief of. the P li tical Bureau in the Foreign Oltice; Mr. M. Adachi, First Secretary of Legation, formerly in Peking; Mr. K. Honda, Private Secretary to Baron Komura, and Mr. K. Konishi. Diplomatic Attache, Captain Takeshits, Naval Attache in Washington, and Colonel Tachibana, newly appointed Military Attache, will act military advisors to the commission, Colourl Tachibana was on the staff of the late Field-Marshal Waldersee in North China, and second on the staff of General Count Nezu in Manchuria, Mr.
Denison, Jurisconsult to the Foreign Office, also accompa:.ied Baron Komura.
It is stated that the rendezvous of the plenipotentiaries will bs Portsmouth, few Hampshire.
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