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府國典瑞大 Ta Jue tien cuo fu

SWEDEN-Peping

CHINA

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotenty.-J.

(nomine) Tokyo

E. E. Hultman

Councillor, Chargé d'Affaires-Baron

C. Leijonhufvud

署公差欽國美大

Ta Mei kuo Ch'in ch'ai Kung shü

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-Peping; Teleph. 919 (Tung-chü); Tel. Ad: Amlegation

Envoy Extraord. & Minister Plenipo-

tentiary-Nelson A. Johnson Counsellor of Legation-M. F. Perkins Naval Attaché-Commander Charles

C. Hartigan

Military Att.-Major John Magruder Commercial Attaché-Julean Arnold First Secretary-Clarence B. Hewes Chinese and Second Secretary-

Clarence J. Spiker

James Orr

Second Secretaries

Denby and Howard Bucknell, jr. Commandant of the Legation Guard

-Col. Thomas Holcomb, U.S.M.C.

Medical Officer-Capt. Joseph A.

Biello, U.S.N.

Assistant Military Attaché-Comdr.

Parker G. Tenney, U.S.A.

Assist. Commercial Attaché-A. Bland

Calder

Third Secretary-Leon H. Ellis Consul detailed to the Legation-

F. J. Chapman, III

Attachés for Language Study-John Carter Vincent, John S. Mosher, Gordon L. Burke, John S. Littell, Edmund G. Chubb and Horace H. Smith Attachés

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Capts. A. Gluckman, U.S.A., William Mayer, U.S.A., 1st Lieuts. Morris B. De Pass, U.S.A., Robert H. Soule, U.S.A., Clarence J. Kanaga, U.S.A., Willard G. Wyman, U.S.A., Ronald A. Boone, U.S.M.C., Thomas D. White, U.S.A, James M. McHugh, U.S.M.C., Harry S. Aldrich, U.S.A., and Charles C. Brown, U.S.M.C.

CHINESE WEIGHTS

16 liang

(tael) make 1 kin

1 liang

WEIGHTS

(tael)

=

1.333 oz. avoir., or 37.78 grammes

F (catty) = 1.333 lbs. avoir., or 604-53 grammes

100 kin Jr

(catty) make 1 tan

擔(picul)

= 133·333 lbs, avoir., or 60·453 kilogrammes

120 kin

(catty) make 1 shik

(stone) =160.000 lbs. avoir., or 72.544 kilogrammes

Four ounces equal three taels; one pound equals three quarters of a catty or twelve taels; one hundredweight equals 84 catties; one ton equals 16 piculs 80 catties.

MEASURE OF CAPACITY

1 koh 合(gill)

make 1 sheng

10 koh

10 sheng make 1 tou

斗

(pint)

(peck)

= 0.103 litre

!

= 1.031 litre

=

10.31 litres