New Embassies

Asking only a nominal rental, the Imperial Household of the Mikado offered the U. S. a perpetual lease on a two-acre estate adjoining the site of the old U. S. embassy, in Tokyo, destroyed by fire during the great earthquake. U. S. Ambassador Woods is now en route for his native land with the Japanese offer and plans for a new embassy in his pocket.

The proffered land, which was stated to be the finest site in Tokyo for an embassy, was once the property of the late Prince Ito, an Elder Statesman, to whom it had been presented for life by the Mikado.

The British embassy in Tokyo sent plans for a new embassy on the old site to London. The new building will cost about $2,000,000.