Despite Harassing Raids by; Guerillas Chinese Unafraid Frequently to use Them Enom Om Own CORRESPONDENT
Peiping, Nov. 3.
Tie technique of modern imperialist wars is to make the enemy pay for as much of the war as possible. The greater the amount the enemy can be made to pay for his own jection the better. The Japanese appear to know something about this and have already started doing it in North China.
The chief Japanese source of revenue here is the railways, all of which are now in Japanese hands run by a special office of the South Manchuria railway known as the North China Railways Bureau, These always paid well; that is in years gone by they have put fantastic sums in the shape of squeeze into countless official pockets as well as Occasionally paying some interest on loans.
The Chinese peasant, in his fatalistic way, continues to use the railw in spite of frequent guerilla interrupt tions of trafüc and the possibility of injury in railway accidents caused by displaced rails.
Statistics issued by the Railway Bureau for September show that the north'section of the Kinhan in September carried 252,47 passengers.
The Peiping line carred 189,113 in the e. month and the Peiping-Suiyuan line 55,870. That is a total of practically half a million passengers wa single month.
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