Peiping, Apr. 16.
Peiping, it its Japonifieation goes much further, will have to change its name. Not only are Japanese citizens flowing into it with the volume and steadiness of a river but its very appearance is being changed and It begins to have a Japanese alr about it.
Before the "incident" Peiping had bout 2,000 Japanese residents. day the figure stands at over 12,000 and the Japanese Consulate registers bout 50 new arrivals dally. All of them don't remain, some following, the: army further afield, Many are reported to be waiting at Shihchi-Jachwang ready to swarm into Shansi when, to. use the phrase without which no Japanese military spokesman is complete, the province has been "mopped up." 7 the (All appear to have come, seeking promised land. Houses here are {very scarce, Japanese snapping up sything that comes on the market, The Chinese police had to establish special department to deal with Japanese wanting to rent houses and Tu many places the tradi tional Chinese shop front has given place to the lath and paper sliding doors and shop fronts of Japan. Beer halls, dance halls, sukiyaki and other restaurants are all over the place, Jand a number of less respectable [places of business also.
N'A. prominent American resident has tried vainly and with all the weight of his Embassy behind him to, get removed a house of prostitution from the house next to his residence, He can neither find another house nor get the nuisance removed.
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