Suggested Chinese Censorship and the Council's Reply:
Marshal Sun's Demand "The following is a full extract of the correspondence passing between the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, the Muvicipal Council and the Consular Body with reference to a suggestion of the Kiangsu ventional Bureau to the Kiangsu iueational Asscefatier, that the! latter should take steps to prevent the showing of cinema pictures which are detrimental to public morals. The correspondence is published in tence in the Municipal Gazette:
Shanghai, May 28, The resak jx able number were not allowed dh ing his tenure of office, to practise at the bar of the US. Court for China although they could practise in the U.S. Consular Court and in the Mixed Court.
The strenuous nature of his stop te ible morals. "As shown 'a Tetter was addresseed toh Opel 28 to the Senior Consul: Gen= feral so that the Municipal Council may 'e'notitied to forbid the exhibition, A. fmoath has since elapsed but ne reply ins" been received now work here led him into many con-cts, and in 1908 he brought a bel suit against the then 'Shanghai Gazette.' This cass was heard in the British Court and a sentence of six months! imprisonment in the #ce-and division was imposed upon the editor, following a largely-Signed appeal th: British Minister reduced it to three months.
ter leaving Shanghai Judge Willey. went to New York City, where he potetise! ber of years. undoubtedly an extraor man, As a judge he was impartial, mut very strict and it was probably because' of this sense of duty that his career in Shunghat brought him into conflicts ad those.mentionsd subject, I have to Invite sour ai tent io the matter. and fo request that sou the steps that sre be. tranaintted With my_con (signed) "Hsu" Yuan, The Original Suggestion May 29, 3 rots in Shania. Dee caslomally there are pictures. th Sxcellent stories with the exhorting. the "public," b majority of the pictures' above—leading to bitterness and, at times, bad feeling—and made his metly thorny one.
Tic nor ye 19 put a stop to the display of Mince. your Atcoviation ta) closer 40 and it is ensy for you
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