Peiping, Oct. 28.
'The City walls of Peiping, built in the early days of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), have finally been breached, though' not in. war.
Under the direction of Japanese engineers, coolies began today (p cut through the walls, which are 40 feet thick and 50 feet high, to facilitate Japanese development plans.
These are to extend the city's principal thoroughfare, Tung Chang An Chieh, westwards to a point near the Rere Course, where a Japanese residential area will be built.
The same thoroughfare is being extended eastwards through the wall to the agricultural area, where the Japanese intend to build their own industrial centre.
A coincidence is the announcement in a Japanese paper in Peiping that the Tokyo Government is preparing to send 200000 Japanese emigrants to North China.
These developments have led one observer to remark that it all reads like a page out of the handbook on the construction of Marnichoukuo—Reuter, WHISKY, A blend of the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.