Great Memorial Day Projected:
Interesting Review of work of Rebuilding Tokyo Tokyo, Aug. 20.
A "Day of Remembrance" is planned by the Prefectural and Municipal authorities of Tokyo and other parts of the devastated area for the observance of the first niversary of the great disaster on September 1. It has been. previo sionally fixed that. the citizens should be invited to observe the day remembrance of those who lost their lives in the earthquake and fire, and should have their attention called by a monster propaganda to the necessity of thrift und economy in their daily lives.
The central point of the observance of the anniversary will the general call to silence at 11.58 am, the time at which the earth quai struck the district last year. Memorial services will be held in churches. and temples, in-memory of the dead.
With the' approach of this one niversary, a review of conditions as they are toulay, and compared with those existing. on September 1 Inst ear, is not without interest, Tokyo 70 Per cent, Restored, According. to this review, which haus been prepared and given out by the Home Department, the city. of Tokyo has been, not permanently, but temporarily, rehabilitated to the extent of nearly 70 per cent. that is to say, of the total number of houses destroyed in the carly days jof September nearly 200,000 have been rebuilt. In the districts of Azabu, Akasaka, Koishikawa, and 'Yotsuya, which were only partially deVastated, all the houses have been rebuilt, while in the other districts, Where' the destruction was much mare. general, some 60 to 80 per ent. have been re-erected.
Tein expected that the temporary rehabilitation of the city. will be completed by the end of the year, manent construction will then. be started. This permanent. reconstruction, says the report, is. expected to take at least 10 years, bat it is thought that in five years most Tokyo will again assume the aspect it wore before the earthquake took place, With regurd'" to there who are still living' in temples, and_ other public buildings, outside the public barracks, the report estimates. the number "at Tess than 10,000, and states that accommodation will be found for them all by the end of the year.
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The report goes on to call attention to the increase in the num: ber of theatres and movie houses that have been erected since Inst autumn. Before the earthquake the number of such places was 30. Of these some 20 were destroyed, Today the total number or such: places of entertainment is 42, including the 10 that were spared destruction.
Hotels and restaurants were the slowest to recover, says the review, but at present about four-fifths of the number destroyed have, been rebuilt, and applications for the constrdetion of others are being filed daily.—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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