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PRINCE BULOW’S RETIREMENT. A HEARTY PUBLIC SEND-OFF. United Press Association —copyright (Received July 19, 11 p.m.) BERLIN, July 19. Prince Bulow received a hearty public send-off at Berlin on his retirement. PRINCE BULOW’S CAREER. Prince Bernhard von Bulow, ivas born in 1849, a son of Herr von Bulow, who was Foreign. Secretary of Germany under Frince Bismarck, 1873-79. He entered the German Foreign Office in 1873, and acted as Secretary of Embassy in Rome, St, Petersburg, and Vienna, holding the important post of Charge d’Affaires in Greece during the Russo-Turkish war. At the conclusion of that war he was appointed one of the Secretaries of the Berlin Congress, and after more diplomatic service in Paris and St. Petersburg he was appointed Minister to Roumania in 1888, and Ambassador to Italy in 1893. During 1897 he acted as Foreign Secretary while Baron von Marschall was on leave, and was at last definitely appointed to that office. In 1899 he concluded the treaty with Spain, whereby the Caroline, Marianne, and Pelew Islands were ceded to Germany, and upon this achievement he was created Count Bulow. In October, 1900, on the resignation of Prince Hohenlohe, he succeeded him as Chancellor of the German Empire, Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign .anairs of Prussia, and on June 6, 1905, he was raised to the dignity of Prinoe. ,He holds -the Royal Prussian High Order of Black Eagle, the Royal Bavarian Order of St. Hubertus, the Imperial Prussian Order of St. Andrew, the Royal Italian Order of the Annuciation, and the Royal Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece. In April, 1906, he was somewhat seriously ill, but resumed control of affairs in October. He is married to Princess Maria Oamporeale, step-daughter of a former Italian Minister, Minghetti.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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