ON THIS DAY IN 1905 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 14 ― The Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of Japan this morning signed their respective copies of the peace treaty, thus officially ending the war. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, called at the State Department today and saw Secretary Root. While he had no official advices on the subject, information had reached him to the effect that the Emperor of Russia had early in the day affixed his signature to the copy of the treaty drawn at Portsmouth and engrossed on vellum at St. Petersburg. It was not necessary for the ambassador to convey this information officially to the State Department, for according to the plan arranged yesterday the Russian foreign office was to advise the French Government of the act of

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