Meanwhile the Canton—officials have taken a leaf out of the book of the Hongkong Government; we understand that a very severe censorship is exercised over all correspondence that passes through the This will have a ver respondence, that already i ese correspondence is quite changed from what it was before the sorship was imposed. Much more will this be so in Canton, An evei more strict search is made of th luggage of all passengers who leav the steamers coming from Hong: kong or Macao, while bas-gage of the passen the country districts is search in Canton. This is done mainly to discover whether there are arms or bombs hidden in the personal effects of the ordinary passengers,
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