¶ Nelson Trusler Johnson, newly appointed U. S. Minister to China, arrived in Peiping last week, making his fifth official visit to the old time capital of China.
"Well," said he to Peiping's Mayor Chang Yen-wu, "it seems like being home again." Turning to a group of Nanking officials, he repeated the same remark in Mandarin Chinese. Chinamen applauded.
¶ From Peiping United Press Correspondent Demaree C. Bess heralded an amazing municipal comeback:
"In the first months after the capital was removed, Peiping's population fell from 1,300,000 to about 800,000, and thousands of shops...
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