The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 42

r2 I I JL fa ire uvernh The New- Tailor-Made Country Where Cities Spring Up Life Mushrooms and Model Suburbs Completed in 24 Hours rr I Another Study of the So-Called "Off-Agaln Monarch Here He is Seen In Court Ceremonial Dre Inspecting the Road-Conttruction Work of Some of III Coolie ing prosperity all around them They are not so naive of course as to believe that the Japanes are doing all this for them out of philanthropy But they are not interested in motives so much as in shaking free of corrup-tion in government and the fears that beset them when their homeland was almost a country without law When agitators against Japan tell the natives that the strangers from Nippon are only trying to develop a much-needed market for the products of her factories and plants the Manchurians shrug their shoulders Like the aver- jfge nan anywhere 11 the "peasant here wants is' peace and plenty and he sees in the new government a chance to get them In placing Pu-Yi on the throne the diplomats of Japan did a shrewd thing Everyone who knows anything about the machinations of international politics realizes that he is the pnppet of the Japanese and Jhat when Tokio pull the strings he will jump The career of this young man offers A fascinating story All his life he has been the tool of various powers and influences The throne he now occupies is not the first he has known Twice he was proclaimed Emperor of China The first time this happened he was only two years old Reading the story of this spectacular event one remembers tHe blood-stained pages of European history It was in 1908 that the brilliant but aged Empress Dowager Tzu-Hsi who had ruled China for almost sixty years decided that she had not much longer to live Emperor Kuang-Hsu 0 Eunpau Picture Inrla Pale-Faced BeSpHtl'H Emperor Pu-Yi Who Is Prouder of hit Bicycling Ability Than 1 111 Domain In Background Stand the New and Magnificent Ministry of Justice Building in Shin-kin Capital of the Empire Now Being Built Practically Overnight Elisabeth" No 1 Wife of the Newly-Crowned Emperor of Manchukuo Henry Pu-YI lie Married Her After Seeing Her Picture In a Chinese Marriage Broker's Catalogue By a Special Correspondent SHINKIN MANCHUKUO ROME was not built in a day but the pace of life has increased tremendously since the time of the first settlers upon ths famed Seven Hills Today here In two years ago known as Manchuria an em- £ire is rearing its enormous head flgura-vely overnight Whatever one may think of the Japanese and their motives In building -yast kingdom for the boy-can build even better and fasterthan of Northern China Henry Pu- -they can destroy But as they build ne contemolatine the sneed and their roads their cities their factories ralls' mcomotives administration omperor Yi anyone contemplating the speed and efllciency with which they are creating imperative That Is what happened in Manchuria Japan stepped in established her control and proclaimed Pu-Yl emperor of the new country In doing that Japan defied virtually the whole world And the world In the end shook its head sadly and decided to mind Its own business What the Japanese have been doing ip Manchukuo ever since proves they and set up set around the still city and newspaper court dignitaries 29-year-old ruler of the kingdom property every new state was Tlkuo The attitude of Opposed the seizure Northern provinces Franc prepared on credit It was Since 1905 when the Japanese astounded the world by routing the Russians in warfare it has been the policy of that militaristic government to act first and explain to other nations afterwards this only if diplomatic necessity made such a policy (backed by the formidable militia of Nippon) they are ever alert to the danger of revolt against their rule An excellent example of how fast and diversely they move in their work of starting towards prosperity this vast new empire was furnished In the week recently when Henry Pu-Yi was crowned emperor Along the grapevine of spy system came word that rebellion was about to' break but Squads of police Immediately searched every house in the city turning up 3000 rifles and 150000 rounds of ammunition Carloads of grain were meanwhile arriving for distribution among 30000 hungry families and accommodations for 4000 homeless people were provided For the coronation 5000 troops were incompleted imperial correspondents and saw blinking bespectacled Henry Pu-Yl made which is way but officially The re-named Ta Manchu the nations that had of the four mat changed immediately to recognise- the offered to sell Japan and other equipment thought other countries would follow suit Japan had cinched its hold on the new empire What Japan needs most she will find in Manchukuo which is expected to become the richest market in the East capable of ab-eorbing Japanese merchandise in vast quantities Shinkin translated residence" and it is really almost a miracle when one considers what has become of this once small and unimportant city in such a short space of time This new city is growing up like a municipal weed almost while we here watch its construction Today it has a population of 170000 persons 25000 of whom are Japanese The en- tire city resembles a huge construction plot although many vi- View of a Corner of the Ministry of Justice Building It Is of Strictly Modern Architectural Design Except for the Roof Whieh as Can Be Observed Follows the Traditional Chinese Style Interesting "Shot" of the New Radio Station Erected in the Capital of the New Slate of Manchukuo It I the Largest and Most Elaborately Equipped Station In the Orient ministration building temples and palaces already have been completed But to the observer perhaps the most interesting feature of all this building of an empire is the ingenious methods by which the Japanese are using both the most modern mechanical engineering and electrical devices and also primitive ones FwUirta tyndiett 1m then prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was ruler in name only Kuang-Hsu had- been taken there because of his heinous offense of trying to modernize bts country He had also had the indelicacy to suggest to all the old mandarins that if they committed suicide the country would be rid of the expensive burden of supporting them According to the court whispers the Dowager Empress who was a woman of will and had the ability to carry out her ideas stopped that pretentious piece of nonsense by sending two husky guards into the apartment They strangled him The old lady she may be called that by right of birth and rearing if not because of her gentle ways had picked Pu-Yi chubby baby son of another of her nephews Prince Chun as the logical successor to the crown With expressionless face she watched soon afterwards Little Pu-Yi looking very cute in his imperial yellow placed on the dragon throne and acclaimed as Emperor JHsuan-Tung Nobody knows whether this excitement wps tpo much for her arief age'd body but at any rate she died the very next day Prlnce Chun became regent tfnd the kiddie king was sent back to his nursery to play with his toys He emerged at the mature age of eight to abdicate after the success of the spectacular revolution engineered by the great Dr Sun Yat-Sen The kiddie king again toddled up to the throne in 1917 when General Hsun an iraacible-tempered reactionary who was so old-fashioned that he refused to have hi pigtail amputated captured Peiping sit said General Hsun in the far from immortal words of a thousand unresourceful Broadway dramatists Pu-Yi sat down but not for long because a few days later a rival faction stormed the capital and gave the again out little emperor just half-an-hour to get his toothbrush and scram After that' Pu-Yi decided he bother any more to be encumbered with the tiappings of State On reaching maturity he picked a beautiful bride from the catalogue of a marriage broker She was the daughter of a Manchu merchant and preferred being called Elizabeth But now Japan has made him her puppet monarch in Manchukuo Si new nation furnishing the machinery for its government and constructing cities can only rasp in admiration Watching tne conversion of the shambling Manchurian city that was Chang-chung into the modem Manchukuoan capital of Shlnkin is like seeing one of the fabulous tales of the Arabian Nights come true Before understanding what' these four Northern provinces of the China of Manchukuo will presently become one Buburbaif tlomel lik Shinkin CnwinuF ad by lh Government for tho Worker They Arn Said to Gotnparo Favorably With tho Living Quarter Built for Workers In Any Modern European City must know what they were before th fighting acquisitive-Japanese ripped them from the loose control of the Chinese government Endowed by nature with the most hxurloue of gifts Manchuria lacked any regular administration Her hills wsra over-run with bandits Her peasant population industrious as Any peasants in the world wee the prey of plunderer The officials appointed by the Chinese State were often corrupt and when bribery did not cause them to neglect the welfare of the 80000009 people under their control lautet fair and divided allegiance contributed to the causes of bad government 4 4 A Tractors work side by side with toiling coolies There is little waste of effort under the superintendence of the brilliant engineers from Japan Traffic roads 45000 miles of which will connect Rhinkijt with the entftj country are being built So hurried is the activity that as soon asarchitect hay mapped out even part of their plans construction work is Im- mediately started and new buildings go np with startling speed Begun or In various stages towards Completion at this tima art huge public buildings canalisation projects electric plants radio stations airports and sta- diums An experimental agricultural station has been finished also libraries and hospitals Ready for occupancy is the Ministry of Justice edifice amonu mental building whose proportions have caused an immense sensation Nothing apparently is being forgotten in the construction of the heart of the empire here There are model suburbs and apartment houses for workers that compare favorably in the matter of conveniences and facilities and comforts with any found in the capitals of Europe Only the roofs of the various structures conform to the traditional Chinese way or construction though smail symbolic statues on the buildings are also remindful that they are of tne East Even more impressive possibly isYhe mental attitude one encounters wherever he goes in Shinkin- The people are rapidly becoming reconciled to Japanese rule They are at present living for Abe most part in primitive surroundings but they see the evidences of com- Some of the Huge Sewer Non Which Were Brought From Japan They An Four Fert In Diameter and WiU Be Part ef the Extentive Shinkin Sanitation System OatrrljJri 1114 King.