But one must not think that because Harbin has ceased being a Russian city it has stopped growin expanding its limits and adding to its beauty. One is entitled to one's own, opinions regarding Japanese methods of colonization, but it must in all fairness be admitted that during the pest five years Harbin has certainly taken on a smarter look. The suburbs have been subjected to a tidying-up process, traffic has been regulated and the city looks gayer by night, as both Japanese and Chinese are not averse to illumination, More order has been introduced, street banditry has disappeared, and he who has not known the Harbin of old—the Russian Harbin—he who has not carried away with him pleasant memories of the Harbin that is dead, the madly gay city that existed' up to 1929, will probably receive the most favourable impression from a two or three weeks' visit here, He will see good hotels, excellent restaurants—Russian, Japanese and Chinese—and a night life that caters to the most capricious taste.
The Nipponese, as one is ordered to call them here, are a nation that like to get to the bottom of thing: here they want to see everything, study everything, be explained everything and the authorities are el couraging this laudable love of know ledge.
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