Many peasants had their land taken from them but in no instance, was. tone cent of compensation paid to these people.
Not only that but all peasants whose land was taken for the road were forced to work for a considerable time upon its construction. When construction work was completed the Japanese army very kind-Ly presented gifts, not to all but to those who had had most land expropriated, The presents were a couple of tickets to see a show at a Japanese cinema in Peiping, ten miles from their homes, This -was considered suMeient for seizing their land and then forcing them to work on it for the construction of "a military road between Japanese barracks at Tsinghua and a small airfield at Chingho.
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