The death occurred here to-day lof Mr. Charles MacVeagh, formerly [United States ambassador' to Japan. The deceased diplomat was 71 years of age. Born in Pennsylvania he was educated at Harvard, graduate ing in 1881, taking a law degree at Columbia two years later. Immed-intely after this he went into practice as a lawyer in New York. For a long time he was cot with the United States Steel Corporation in a legal capacity and fin 1925 was appointed American ambassador in Tokyo, a post from which he retired quite recently.—
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