Tt was only twenty odd years since the city had been occupied by the Taipings and there were still many traces of their long conflict with the Imperialists. The North City beyond the Drum Tower was a series of small hamlets separated by vegetable gardens and attractive [bamboo groves which afforded food and refuge for pheasants and some-Himes for hog-deer.
The city wall Fon the east, especially between T'a ij on the top of Ching L Shan topped a vista of fertile valleys and sloping hillsides covered with wild-tea shrubs The Imperial city of the Bings was in ruins and only one building Yeniained. This was generally known as the Tee Palace, Ping Kung. It had a rafterlels roof, dalle as a span of masonry en thick wall. The southern entrance to the Forbidden City still stood. The Porcelain Pagoda had been destroy~ ed during the Taiping rebellion but {ts iron cap had been preserved and stood in an enclosure in front of the arsenal outside the South Gate. Tiles from the pagoda were still easy to obtain. The last ones I parchastherefore, seen that wheres China had only asked her views on ext territoriality to be heard at the Paris Peace Conference. ten years ago, abe is now bent on abrogating the' extraterritoriality clauses of her treaties. First and foremost, it is a struggle for equality among id Powers, and this policy shanged since China's entry into. the great war, but the new spirit nationalism has poshed this question to the forefront.
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