CHINA SEA

part of Pacific Ocean, stretching from Corea to Siam. 4 38’ N., 87° 36’ W.), town (and department), W. Nicaragua; bananas, sugars cane, and cotton cultivated. ‘op. 11,000. town, capital of Shan-tung, China; commercial center. Pop. 300,000. 28’ W.), group of three rocky. islands off coast of Peru; formerly noted for large deposits of guano. China; tea and sugar exported.. about the size of a squirrel living in high altitudes in Peru and Chile, burrowing among loose rocks; prized for its soft pearly grey fur. Japanese diplomat (1856), b. in Hirosaki, and educated at Depauw University, U.S.A. In 1886 he entered the Japanese. Foreign Office, four years later was consul in San Francisco, and in 1895 Consul-general in Shanghai. In 1897 he went to Brazil as Minister Resident, and during the following three went in the same capacity to Holland, Denmark, Ru ia, Sweden and Norway. In 1901 he became Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs; in 1908, Amba ador to Germany, and peter 1911-16 he was Amba ador to the United States, He was Amba ador to England from 1916 till 1920 when he was made a member of the Privy Council and of the Advisory Board on Diplomatic Affairs, He was chief of the suite of the Japanese Crown Prince on his tour to Europe in 1921.