The population continues to grow }ey leaps and bounds. About 100,000 more people came last year, and it Jocks as though as many more will come during 1935. The present [Population is nearly 690,000 more than was when the National Government moved to Nanking in 1928, A very large percentage of the newcomers re day labourers or apprentices oF people without employment, Their condition is suggested by the fact that between 100,000 and" 200,000 of] them live in thatched root hovels.
The growth of any great modern city always rings problems of this sort, The urge is strongly upon Nanking to make not simply a city with a famous and costly mausoleum and impressive government buildings and large new streets and money-making developments in real estate, but also a city which will give adequate answer to the claims of socialism and communism as the only' methods of giving everybody a chance.
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