WORLD'S CLEANEST CITY
Baron Hayashi, the^ Japanese 'Amb«ssador, as guest of honour *t a, dinner or j the London Society, said, after referrinjj j to his previous experienoe of London «.■ quarter of a century before, that London , was going back to the old jjay times, awl ', he thought no town in the world was auch'i an agreeable place to live in. There weretwo or three things for which, he was 6orry. One was the disappearance of tho old horse oabs which made London co picturesque. When he returned to London > and saw tho fos he felt he was greetinjt . an old friend. He attributed the fact that there i were no healthier people in the world! than Londoners to the fogs. Many 'London buildings had a peculiar grey colour, and ignorant people thought this was a sign of neglect on the part of its people, yet ho had never seer a town so clean. Ho thought our servants must work night .and day, and clean, clean, clean. Servants in London '.seemed to work from morning > till.evening: without a word of command, j
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1922, Page 9
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182WORLD'S CLEANEST CITY Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1922, Page 9
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