Tokyo, July 30.
Slightly more than three years ago Japan was at peace, looking forward happily to the Olympic Games and a World Fair in Tokyo in 1940, expanding its industries, modernizing and beautifying its cities.
Today the Japanese people can look back upon three years of military @ictories in China and three years of constantly mounting deprivations and sacrifices at home. #4, The Olympic Games and the World Fair were cancelled because Japan was too busy with the war.
Factories manufacturing goods for export were converted into munitions works, with a resulting loss in fole eign trade. Many municipal provement projects were abandoned. Work on a huge reservoir outside of Tokyo was stopped, the materials being diverted into war usage. This year Tokyo is suffering an acute water shortage which would not have occurred in its present severity if the reservoir had been completed as scheduled.
Tokyo's unsightly canals, scheduled io be converted into broad motor highways, still are breeding mos-unitees and endangering public health.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.