The Archive · 1929

The Freedom of

THE PRESS

Two Foreign Papers Refused Postal Transmission Tientsin, Feb. 6.

The "North China Star" yester-

Jday was' informed by the post office authorities that instructions had been received from the Ministry of Communications that the newspaper was to be refused transmission through the post.

recent mastage to a Chinese newspaper from Nanking stated [that the Executive Yuan had dock to take such a step on the the newspaper was pro-ite me rumours detrimental to the National Government, but the owners of the "North China Star"

Jstate that the action taken by the Post Office yesterday was the first intimidation they had had that there iwas any complaint.in Government circles against it—Renter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account