From time to time intermat vouchsafed regarding the con In East Hopel formerly known as the: demilitarized zone and now. under the control of a so-called autonomous administration " resting largely Japanese support, The frontier of the anomalous siate in such close proximity to Peiping that some employees of the administration's offices "Tungchow. the seat of Mr. Yin Suskeng's government, actually sleep in Peiping and go to their labours: each day in motor-buses. East Hopel has its own customs service—independent of Nanking—under condi which are well-known to all students of China's smuggling troubles in the. North. It also commands access 10 the Peiping-Mukden and Peiping-'Suiyuan Railway. Us gradual Japonification is therefore a problem of the first moment to those responsible for maintaining the Chinese Government's authority in the North. The closeness to Peiping gives the "demilitarized" area a sinister military significance if all the political and strategic factors involved are taken into account. The latest report of the activities of the "administration" in altempling to seize control of the salt revenue is not at all reassuring.
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