Mukden which has seen in the past loss of life by flood within the city limits has done something by drawing up plans for a substantial dyke, to extend from the railway bridge over the Hunho, just south of the city, to Tungling (Eastern Tombs). Mukden already had a small dyke which protected the Japanese Concession and the Settlement designated for foreign residence. The new construction, if and when completed, will include several suburbs which are being incorporated into the municipality, Frequent tabulations of population are published, For some time readers were confused by figures which failed to specify whether they included the Japanese. Concessions or not. The remarkable growth of the principal cities, according to the figures published, has in large measure been due to the extension of municipal boundaries rather than to natural increase of population. This particularly applies to this city and Dairen. For a time Mukden's claim to be the largest city in Manchukuo was menaced by the reports from Harbin, but the resourceful City Fathers annexed a few villages, putting the city well in the lead.
The inclusion of Dairen in Manchoukuo statistics may astonish those who recall that the Japanese Empire made a vast sacrifice of blood and treasure to wrest that port from the clutches of the Russian Bear, but they must have failed to grasp the true significance of the indivisibility of.the Japanese and Manchoukuoan Empires. Indivisibility obviously presupposes unity, and when that is realized all grounds for astonishment disappear.
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