Nor have the Japanese, so far, pulled down any whole sections of the old, town and rebuilt them en loc, The new buildings they have been putting up are scattered here and there about the city, on empty plots, waste spaces, or on properties that have been confiscated, In any ease Peiping, having once been the capital of China, possesses a large humber of now surplus public build ings, which have naturally been made use of by. the Japanese, so that" comparatively tittle public building has been" necessary. The former Ministries of War and Navy re now occupied by the Head-quarlers of the Japanese army and by the China Affairs Board; the former, Ministry of Communications is the headquarters of the Hsin Min Mul; the old Peiping-Hankow Rail way' offices are now the head ofice of the North China Railways; and so forth. There are, therefore, not 50 very many novel features (0 be recorded, Probably the change that would be most noticeable to any foreign visitor returning after three or four years would be found in the southeast quarter of the Tartar (Inner) City, which, it must be admitted, has now quite a touch of Tokyo about. it Prior to the Incident there were probably not more than 2,600 Japanese and Korean residents in Peiping, fand they all lived in this part of the city, which has now been extended into a proper Japanese quarter. the southern sections of the two main streets that traverse this quarter north and south, about half the shops are now Japanese, The greater number of Chinese houses in the lanes—the so-called utungs-—that run east and west between Halamen Main Street and the east wall are now occupied by Japan-ce, og residences, business premises, amusement places, such as restaur-fants and cabarets, in one of these hhutungs alone there are over 20 such. resorts. The change fs brought home to one specially at night, when street after street brilliantly" Tit up wilh, faring red neon signs in Japanese characters, give one the impression of being In some city in Japan rather than here,
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