Foreign News: Honorable Regularity

Hungry citizens of Akita, in northwestern Honshu, complained that nine days after the surrender the community vegetable garden was torn up to make way for a new air-raid shelter. City officials explained that funds for the shelter had been provided by the central government, and that spending the money for anything else would create a difficult bookkeeping problem.

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