The Archive · 1928

NANKING OR, PEKING?

Aug. 21

"That the proposal to remove the Hopei Provincial Goverament to Peiping be referred to the Ministry of Interior for ce sideration." So runs a resolution adopted at Thursday' meeting of the: Central Political Committee, The question is apparently shelved and the fortunes of the old capital sink the further towards. insignificance, Peking is hard hit. Nemesis hi overtaken the pride and majesty lof bygone centuries. The city wears a dead look, Of ordinary business there was never much apart from the contracts with government and these have gone with the government. The once

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