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Title: Where Half The World Is Waking Up

Author: Clarence Poe

Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29546]

Language: English

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WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP

[Illustration: COUNT SHIGE-NOBU OKUMA OF JAPAN]
(From a photograph and autograph given the author)

Count Okuma, one of the Genro or Elder Statesmen of Japan and
ex-Premier of the Empire, is an opponent of his country's high
protective tariff and an earnest advocate of international
arbitration.

WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UP

THE OLD AND THE NEW IN JAPAN, CHINA, THE
PHILIPPINES, AND INDIA, REPORTED
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO
AMERICAN CONDITIONS

BY
CLARENCE POE

Author of "A Southerner in Europe," "Cotton: Its Cultivation and
Manufacture," Editor "The Progressive Farmer," Sec'y North Carolina
Historical Association, etc., etc.

Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN
LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY CLARENCE POE

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS
GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

TO

THE RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES BRYCE

IN WHOM ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER AND PERSONAL CHARM MEET IN RARE
SYMMETRY; WHO HAS WON THE WISDOM OF AGE WITHOUT LOSING THE DEW OP
YOUTH; AND WHOSE GENEROUS FRIENDSHIP HAD MA