Peiping, Aug. 2.
Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoy¢ and Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat suoka of Japan have wired Wan Yi-tang, Chairman of the North China Political Council, "thanking him for his roeont cable of con gratulations onthe creation of the how Japanese Cabinet—Havas, with the usual (ent-like root support-eight pillars plastered ant painted Fed. The floor was paved, and a Jow wall ran along the edge of the platform, here some fifteen foot above the slope of the hill, and AE that "height, above the plain, the view was n ficent. 'To. the right a spur of hills ran down to the Hun River, six of seven miles off. Below was' the Valley, covered with trees, throws which peeped the roofs of the lower temples. On the left "more hills stretching to the Jade Fountain and the grounds of the Summer Palace. Tight in front of us lay the Great Plain, losing self in the sky.
"We could trace" the wails Peking, and. count every gate. and see the yellows roofs of the palace Buildings Mashing in the sun. "On a clear day the pagoda of Tunxchow, 25 miles away, could be made out. wax never the sine, did with every. cloud: winter, "light green in through yellow to brown a wulumn came and passed. But Tt think it looked loveliest at night, when a great moon was riding overhead and touched the lake at andthe river of the silver. Tight. All was that' we could even hear" the Sound of the gun fired by the peasants Keeping, watch over their crops, as a warning to pilferers, or the faint Barking of some village dog"
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