The one striking feature of these monuments is that they are kept in beautiful condition by the local iment. On his visit to the northern tombs, the resting place of Tai-tsung and his Empress, the writer was impressed by the activities of carpenters, masons and gardeners who swarmed all over the place, patching, replacing and repainting whatever showed signs of wear and tear—a constant performance at the expense of the Toco municipality. This is simply symptomatic of a sense of decency in Manchuria which is in striking jing by the heirs to the Imperial ime, Mere they began under Tsao Kun by looting the preserves about the Imperial tombs of their fine old trees and ended a few months ago by rifling the Eastern Tombs and throwing the bodies of Ch'in Lung and the Into Empress wer out on the ground. by Wa Pei-fu.and was later adopted by the Fengtien authorities and then discarded during the retreat, directed the dynamiting.of the tombs, personally secured al! the able gold and jewels, clit than into Peking by more car and distributed a sufficient share anon the Nationalist officials in the North to secure himself a gar-ison commander's post north of kerf, Everyone knows that the trial of the silly subordinate who came blundering in weeks later with a few pateelain pots has been postponed and postponed to give the scandal a chance to subside before 4 trial brings out the disreputable facts, and to give the military de-tactives in Tientsin a fruitful opportunity to blackmail curio dealers their pretended search for Eastern Tomb souvenirs, means something to the forumes to go to the tombs in Mukden, find them immaculately kept and scrupulously repaired, as evid-ones that "face" and decency are ition there; and then to come back to Peking and find that the of the tombs here under "the Nationalists. ig. still a. subject Ter public cant and hypoerisy, and for cynical official wits ticism in private,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.