Show i I A ABigT Big T Task sk I WORK ORK ahead of the Japanese government vy i 1 rebuilding the devastated areas of iu he recent earthquake can cati best bestle be understood j b by bythe the thes first auth authentic fi figures ures telling the number of buildings destroyed lie Tle government publish pub pub- lish s the following list Residences 93 Assembly halts halls 94 shrines anc an and temples temple 1936 factories theatres government buildings schools and rind libraries banks and offices siness offiC S warehouses warehouses To clean up and rebuild aft after r this this' mammoth mam niam moth destruction is' is isa a test for any government nd Japanese officials h ve stated that the work will ib b foe carried without a bond issue The earthquake and fire that leveled Tokio Tokia and Yokohama ma represent greater destruction than that of the armies of Germany in northern northern north north- em ern France yet the Japanese government has lia made no overtures about postponing of its foreign obligations which are outstanding inthe in inthe inthe the form orm of bonds The faith which the rest of the world has hasin in ii p. p Japan is shown in the present strength of pf Japanese bonds which are holding as strongly on the market as before the great disaster Japan does not intend to rush into the work a and id rebuild its destroyed cities cities in in a i short time It has been anno announced by government govern govern- ment flent spokesmen that a long period will vill be betaken betaken betaken taken to do the work and that when the cities are completed finer buildings buildings' sill w ill ll rep replace ace those destroyed The cities will be made mo more nore e beautiful I and many of the evils that go ith large cities that have gradually grownup grown grownup up will be dolie away with T Tie The e new construction construction con con- suction will vill also be along lines that will vilI give all of the buildings great resistance against Earthquakes kes so that any fut future re disturbances disturbances disturbances dis dis- dis- dis such as the recent one one will not leave wreck and ruin in their path It is interesting to note that concrete buildings withstood the earth eaith tremor tr mor better than those th se of pf other materials |