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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

educational work, 1880-82; in 1882,

appointed a Director of Nippon Yusen Kaisha; Director, Banking Bureau in Bank of Japan, 1890;

Governor of Bank, 1898; nominated

to House of Peers, 1905. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

YAMASHINA, Prince (TOKYO), Cap- tain in Japanese Navy; b. July 3, 1873; m. Nov. 26, 1902, Princess Tsuneko, 5th d. of Prince Shimazu.

Educ.: Germany. Was attached to cruiser "Yakuma" during Russo-

Japanese War with rank of Juu. Captain. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

YANG SHIH-CH'I (SHANGHAI), Vice- Director General, China Merchants'

Co. and Chinese Commercial

Telegraphs; representative of Shangpu, 1906; recommended for post of Associate Director proposed Peking Changchiak'ou (Kalgan)

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Railway.

YANG TSUNG-LIEN (TIENTSIN), Supt., Government Cloth Factory; native of Kuangsu; Director of Naval School at Tientsin, 1885; strongly recommended by Viceroy Li to post of Taotai at Tungchow, Oct., 1890; Ho-tung Tao, Shansi, March, 1897; Salt Comptroller, Chihli, Sept., 1899; resigned; rauk of Metropolitan Erd class to superintend Govt. cloth factory at Tientsin, Oct.,

1902.

YANO, Jiro (TOKYO), Member of House

of Peers; b. Jau., 1845, at Tokyo. Was appointed to suite of Envoy sent to Europe by Tokugawa Shogunate, 1862 ; Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, 1872-75; from 1876

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to 1893, devoted himself solely to

commercial educatiou; nominated

to House of Peers, 1904. Address:

Tokyo, Japan.

YASUHIRO, Ban-Ichiro (TOKYO),

Member of House of Peers; b. Nov.,

1859, in Fukuoka-ken. Educ.: Imp.

Univ., Tokyo; Cambridge, Euglaud. Held secretaryship in Home Office

and other depts; was Chief Sec. of Yamagata Cabinet, 1898-1900; Vice-Minister of Agric. and Com- merce, 1901-1903. Address: Tokyo, Japan.

YEOMANS, S. Cecil (KUALA LUMPUR), B.A., Cantab.; Journalist; b. Feb. 15, 1876; m. Helen Minnie, 2ud d. of J. T. Keyt, Kuala Lumpur, Educ. : Northamptonshire, and Christ's College, Cambridge.

Editor, since Feb., 1902, of the Malay Mail," the first daily newspaper published in the Fede- rated Malay States. Address: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.

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YERKES, Rev. Carroll Harvey

(ICHOW-FU), A.M.; Clerical Mis- sionary; b. Aug. 18, 1876, at Phila- delphia, Penna.; m. July 12, 1904,

Helen Nevins Eckard. Educ. :

Lafayette Coll., Eastou, Pa.; Princeton Theol. Seminary. Ad- dress: Ichow-fu, Shautung, China.

YERSEN,

Dr.

Alexander E. J.

( NHATRANG ), Superintendent of Pasteur Institute of Nhatrang and Saigon as Agent for Paris Pasteur Institute in Indo-China ; b. Sept. 22, 1863. Educ.: Geneve;

Lausanne ; Pris. Doctor for