Foreign News: A Better Tokyo

An elaborate plan of drainage, waterworks, sewage, paving, subways, surface lines, boulevards and buildings has been worked out by Dr. Charles A. Beard of New York, specitl city advisor to Baron Shimpei Goto, mayor of Tokyo.

Dr. Beard: "Within ten years this capital can be reconstructed into one of the world's foremost cities."

Baron Goto: "I intend to see the Beard program through to completion." This is taken by most people to mean that it will be done. Able, active Goto is often called the "Roosevelt of Japan."

At present paved streets in Tokyo are...

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