Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1934-10-05
NANKlNG WORKSHOP
OF CHINA'S AFFAIRS
New Capital Is Attaining
Worldwide Notice.

washington.--"N Marking is making
Itself heard round the world as the
new capital Of China. Although Peip
ing. the old northern capital. may be
the bay window of China's information
al relationships. Marking is the work.
shop" says the National Geographic
society. But because huge sums are
expended by the nations in maintain
ing established embassy quarters at
Pelping, 1t is unlikely that these will
be moved to Marking for some time.
However, Russia's embassy is at
Marking, and II Is represented by a
consular office at Peiplng; the British
and French have diplomatic establish
ments in Marking which are subsid-
larry, respectively. to embassy and
legation at Peiping; the Japanese
maintain consular offices at Marking,
branches Of their legation at Peiping;
and the office OF the American consul
late general at Nanklng is a busy
branch Of the American legation at
Peiping.
aTbns hecapse Of IFS inheritance MS
cb,na,s conitai citv. lis lacatjon 90
miles inland on the south bank of the
Yangtze river, backbone Of Chinese
commerce; its proximity to ShanghaiS
revenues its rop,narotive neorness TO
Canton. and its freedom from too in.
tlmate association with the Manehns.
Nanting is becomine a more and more
imnortont factor IN the story of new
China
Identification plans
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Rnt with the INFUSION of new life into
the republican form Of government in
1923 China again chose more central
" located Marking as the seat Of gov.
eminent. Today some $4,000 resi-
dents-double the 1928 population
watch Marking bravely seek place
beside London. Washington, Paris.
"Besides erecting many modern
buildings. such as the new central hos
pital. the ministry Of railways, and the
ministry of communications. Marking
is laying roads--asphalt roads and
good ones. Approximately 100 miles of
wide asphalt boulevards wind in and
out of the city. The Marking Shang-
hal highway, Of macadam and dirt,
will be finished within a year. 1t will
link the capital more closely to China's
financial and commercial seaport me.
tropolis. A government railway con.
meets Marking with Shanghai (eight
hours). and with PelpIng (about 80
hours). River steamers take travellers
to Shanghai or to Hankow and beyond.
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