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Show Japan Maps Big China City For Hordes of Immigrants PEIPING, North Chin. Dee 12 lrP This ancient Chinese capital It literally bunting through Its historic walli and barrier! under the relentleu pressure of Japanese Immigration Immigra-tion into North China. Under Japanese orders, a new gateway Is being hacked and dug through the 500-year-old Tartar city wall, which has stood Intact during war and siege since Pelping, or Peking, was built during the Ming dynasty, dy-nasty, - The gateway will connect with a broad highway leading to the proposed site of a new Japanese city, seven mile west of Pei-ping Pei-ping and near the old Imperial summer palace at the edge of the western hills. Japanese plan to make this the railway, Industrial and governmental gov-ernmental center of North China, leaving present day Pelping Pel-ping as a sightseeing attraction for tourists. - The new city planned by the Japanese will have living space for an estimated 1,000,000 persons per-sons most of them Japanese. Almost 200,000 Japanese have poured Into North China In the last 30 monthi In the wake of their conquering armies. Of this number, 41,000 have settled In overcrowded Pelping, an Increase of 37,000 compared to the Japanese Japa-nese population before the war. Other municipal centers of Japanese civilian concentration are at Tientsin with 35,000, Tslngtao with 24.000 and Tsinan with 11.500. . There were leas than 15,000 Japanese civilians In all North China prior to 1937. The flood of Immigration developed de-veloped so rapidly that Japanese authorities have. taken steps to halt It temporarily. Permits to come to North China now are Issued only to those assured of I Jobs and places to live. |