But Japanese encroachment the city is not limited to the Hong Kew area only. "Aside from small traders, in the industrial centres Japan employs 63,000 workmen at 4,800,000" spindles, as opposed 1/750,000 in. the native manufactures which employ a staff of only a third of that number, Finally at the exit of the popu lous" North Szechuen Road, the Japanese have built a new quarter strictly in keeping with Tokyo standards. It presents a veritable spec~ tacle of order and discipline, After the skirmishes in 1932 Japan built a Darracks-fortress, just 'a few paces from the North' Station, the vital centre of Shanghai and its railway communications with Nanking and the City Hall of Kiangwan. Tt Dbullt in tons of cement to offset bombs and missiles and to serve as a platform for heavy artillery should the events of Chayei be repeated.
addition, Were and the Nippon forts,' camouflaged universities or factories have un~ obtrusively appeared. For example there is the Shaaghal Science Institute-on the Route. Ghisi, with facade Uke a mediaeval castle, Tt directed by a tiny charming' old and there the variations tism in Chinese, phenomena nomy, raditin, basaltic rocks of the Far Bast, Korean brachiopods, Noume ammionites and choleric "@ibrations, fare studied in an innocent setting where the students may rest from their studies by playing golf on the vast lawns where on reception days mousmés walk in the sun, their ruby and amethyst kimonos' and obis, against a background of weeping willows, artificial lakes and twisted camphor trees,
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