Tokio, Nov, 27.
After a three-day session, at which the Government's plan with regard to reconstruction was searchingly examined, the Advisory Council recommended an amendment to the plan by elimmating from it the construction of a Tokio-Yokohama canal and of Tokio harbour, which should be separately dealt with in the opinion of the Council, The amendment also recommended shortening the first period of reconstruction by 12 months. In this manner it is believed that it will be possible to curtail expendture by more than Y.100,000,000. The Government to-day agreed to meet the wishes of the Council as far as possible.
English Sympathy and Ready Response to Lord Mayor's Appeal for Funds London, Nov. 28, At a meeting of the Japan So ciety to-day, Commander Oswald Tuck, R.N., lectured on comic medieval plays.
Baron Hayashi, who presided, replying to an expression of sympathy with the Japanese in consequence of the recent earthquake, said that the Japanese people were deeply grateful for the splendid English response to the Lord Mayor's appeal.
The meeting concluded with w representation of the Japanese medieval play, "The Apple anc The Frier."'—Reuter.
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