Peiping, Oct. 28.
Ever since the outbreak of the present "war"—to an obsolete word—there has been a tendency in certain circles to argue that the Chinese Government was foolish to put up any resistance, and that the people of North China would be no worse off under Japanese domination than they ever were. Persons holding such views should come north and visit Peiping and Tientsin, when they would soon learn that, despite all fine theories to the contrary, a conquered country is a conquered country, no matter under what name you may try and disguise the fact.
ing is rapidly assuming the air of a Japanese city. The Rising Sun flag is to be seen everywhere. The whole eastern part of the town is becoming a Japanese quarter. Hundreds of houses, in all parts of the city. have been seized by the Japanese, with or without the consent of the Chinese owner, and generally without any rent or compensation, Along Hatamen Street, one of the main thoroughfares, nearly every other shop is Japanese, and among them cabarets and drugstores predominate The occupants of more than three-quarters of the motor cars one sees dashing through the streets ar Japanese, while hundreds of them are to be seen riding around in rickshaws. There must have been an influx into Peiping of many thousand Japanese. The greater number- are connected with the army in some way or other: commissariat, press, railway and large numbers of advisors of every kind, hundreds of gendarmes who are particularly busy and thousands of petty traders.
Whenever there arrives in town some important military officer, a commander-in-chief or an Imperial aide-de-camp with a personal message to the troops from the Emperor, all the main streets along which these high and mighty persons are likely to travel are closed off. Even pedestrians are kept off the streets and all traffic is held up for hours. The international Legation Quarter is then patrolled by armed Japanese sentries,
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