Peiping, Oct. 2 'The City walls of Peiping, built in the early days of the Ming Dynasty (1363-1644), have finally been breach-Jed, though' not in war 'Under' the direction of Japanese engineers, coolies began today to cut {through the walls, which are 40 fect thick and 50 fect high, to facilitate Japanese development plans.
'These are to" extend the city's principal thoroughfare, Tung Chang JAn Chieh, westwards to a point near the Race' 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 'A. coincidence is the announcement jin a Japanese paper in Peiping that the Tokyo Government is preparing to. send" 200,000 Japanese emigrants North. China, "These developments have ted one observer to remark that it all reads ike a page out of the handbook on the construction "of -Monehoukto. Reuter, French Gunboat to Leave Hankow Hankow, Oct, 24.
'The French—gunboat—Tahure, which is anchored. here, will sail down the Yangtze bound' for Annam on November 1 with 60 colonial troops board and conveyed by a Japanese naval vessel, it was report ed" today.
Hereufter the French Concession here will be garrisoned by more than Domei.
100 troops and fourteen marines
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