Meanwhile the Government's watchdogs are alert and active. The Jiyu Shimbun, the organ and mouthpiece of the Jiyuto, was ordered to suspend publication on the 25th inet. until further notice, the usual ereotyped reason being assigned, It occurs to me that it may possibly have offended by pubbs ing the, text of_ this very Representatior notice the Japan Herald omits to state its source; but it is not impossible, of course, that it received a copy of the document or a translation from parties anxious to secure for it that publicity which is one of the strongest safeguards for progress and individual liberty the age pussesses—only it must be discriminatingly, nay conscientiously granted. But if the Jiyu was suspended, the Sani Shimpo, paper published in Yamagata Ken, has received permission to renew work; 80 the balance is not disturbed,
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