For several weeks -ve have been regaled by stories of the "great event." There has been no secret of the opinion, credited to the Japanese Army, that'all influence of the Nanking Government should disappear from North China, though we are informed that the army dissociated Mwself from the schemes of political minorities who sought this opportunity of furthering their own plans the old Chinese capital. peculiarly well-informed visitor stated that opinions et. the Manchoukuo capital. were divided between those! who advocated the establishment of new, independent buffer state to Include the five northern provinces, and those who desired the extension of the Manchoukuoan Empire. This latter group was apparently not unani imes as to whether this expansion should take the form of the inclusion of North China within the boundaries of Manchoukuo, of course, after the receipt of petitions from the inhabitants of that region, or the removal of the court from Hsinking to Peking, presumably as a restora tion of the China Dynasty.
These weighty political considera tions are reported to have had a real effect on the local house rents. Whatever other change the Japanese occupation may have caused. there is doubt that the demand for modern houses, particularly those of smaller sizes, since September 1931 has increased by leaps and bounds.
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