"The Japanese plan is equally simple: the city is to be provided with entirely new, and quite separate, residential and industrial areas. The residential area has been put to the west of the city—in the district known as Paomachang, where many foreigners have week-end cottages—and the industrial area on the east side. "Rather foolish," one may say "with the city lying in between," Ah, but then one obviously does not have true town-planning instinct. For in the southern part is the broad Eternal Peace Street, running east and west; and all one has to do, in order to connect up the two areas, is merely to build new gates in the east and west walls, and to pull down an odd mile or so of houses on either side between the two ends of the Eternal Peace Street and the walls.
This scheme is well on its way. To the east right out towards Tungchow, and to the west towards the river, running straight as a die, two tremendous roads have been built, 100 feet or more in width, and with many side roads leading off them. And these roads, one must admit at last, have completely and utterly changed the face of the landscape: whole villages, well-known grave-yards, and many other picturesque features hav-
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