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JAPAN

material damage was enormous. A very large proportion of the buildings in ther! capital and the chief port were reduced to dust and ashes by the earthquake and the fires which followed. The official returns gave a total of 6,962 factories destroyed, and assessed the damage at yen $380,000,000. Questioned in the Diet, Mr. Inouye said the total loss from the earthquake was between seven and ten million yen.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Prime Minister-Baron Giichi Tanaka

Minister for Foreign Affairs-Baron Giichi Tanaka Minister for Railways-Heikichi Ogawa

Minister for Navy-Admiral Keisuke Okada

Minister for Army-General Yoshinori Shirakawa

Minister for Commerce and Industry-Tokugoro Nakahashi Minister for Home Affairs-Kisaburo Suzuki

Minister for Finance-Chuuzo Mitsuchi

Minister for Agriculture and Forestry-Teijiro Yamamoto

Minister for Communications-Keisuke Mochizuki Minister for Justice-Yoshimichi Hara Minister for Education-Rentaro Mizuno

PRIVY COUNCIL (Tokyo)

President-Baron Yusaburo Kuratomi Vice do. Kiichiro Hiranuma

IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT (Tokyo)

Minister-Kitokuro Ichiki

OFFICE OF THE KEEPER OF THE PRIVY SEAL

(Tokyo)

Keeper-Count Nobuaki Makino

HOUSE OF PEERS (Tokyo)

President-Prince Iyesato Tokugawa

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

(Tokyo)

President-Shigeru Morita

EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS

ARGENTINE (LEGATION)—10, 7-chome,

Minamicho, Aoyama, Tokyo

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenip.-Mario Ruiz de los Llanos Secretary--German Eduardo Argerich

BELGIUM (EMBASSY)-3, Sennencho, Ko-

ji-machi-ku, Tokyo; Teleph. Ginza 3736

Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenip. HE. Albert de Bassompierre First Secy.-Viscount Joseph Berryer

BRAZIL (EMBASSY)-2, Omote-cho, 3-chome,

Akasaka, Tokyo

Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-

potentiary-H.E. A. de Feitosa Second Secretary-E. Machado, jr.

CHINA (LEGATION)-Nagata-cho, 2-chome,

Koji-machiku, Tokyo

CHILE (LEGATION)-Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Pedro Rivas

Vicuna

CZECHOSLOVAKIA (LEGATION)—22, Kasumi- cho, Azabu-ku, Tokyo; Teleph. Aoyama 7004; Tel. Ad: Zamini

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary-Dr. J. Svagrovsky Secretary-B. Szalatnay Chancellor-Jan Fierlinger

DENMARK (LEGATION)-8, Nakadori, Maru- nouchi, Tokyo; Teleph. Marunouchi 967;. Tel. Ad: Legadane

Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Pleni- potentiary-Henrik de Kauffmann Counsellor, Chargé d'Affaires-Ejnar

Waerum

Secretary-F. E. de Hoegh-Guldberg