Even the city walls have been ceiving the attention of the thorough. cing Japanese, as it is feared that, some of the bolder spirits might use this method of getting into and out of the city, And, indeed, climbing the city walls has always been a favourite route for smugglers and fothers desirous of avoiding the eye of the law, quite specially of wine smugglers in the old days. Nor is very hard, specially the wall of the southern (Chinese) City which is much lower than the Tartar City wall; the many holes worn in the] ancient brick structure offer a mod Jately easy route for Alpine climbers. Police patrols have, therefore, been placed on the walls, and anybody caught attempting to use this route Hable to be shot, As a further precaution, the whole! circumference of the outer walls. is to be "protected" with live wires. This is by no means such a simple! matter, a5 the outer circumference is. lover 25 miles. "One can only suppose that the already very ineMicient elec: tric power of the city will be still {further strained than it already is.
Leaving out of the question the good sense in shutting up a population of nearly 1,000,000 souls. inside their city walls in this high-handed way, there still remains the fact. that these restrictions inflict very direct hardships on a large part of the population, A considerable number: Jof the labourers come from the sur~ rounding villages, where they have {their homes and families, from which they are now completely cut off, 30 {that they are often unable to send them any part of their earnings, on [which their families depend.
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