Anti-Japanese: Boycott' Proceed ing though Officially. Lifted:
After: having. suffered: for years censorship imposed tom every sort of political malady. the military, police and' Kuomintang authorities at the various newspaper effies has at last had its reaction pud Chinese journalists have decided tive has been taken by the ne papermen of Soochow and the result Censors were sent to the different newspapers by all and sundry. There was no reason for it. Why should there he-newspapers nominal.
to voice the senti People if the ecustantly bel Hankow has returned to: normal, the opinion ofa. prominent business man who is now a. visitor to Shanghai.
"Business is. very: muct the: same as it used to be," he told representative of the: "North-"North-China Daily News" in an that the censors there now have 'A well-known merchant yeas also And he added, "Busi Tittle or nothing: to do because no interviewed and he said that the ness. is normally. bad." fewer than 11 of the leading] thing was a disgrace, When journals of that city have suspended the Nationalists came here, the This gentleman has brought with publication. Since July people expected tobe" allowed: him the: interesting report that Dr. apers have been issued and an Chang, the director of the freedom of speech and publication Anti-Censorship Committee, consist British Concession in Hankow just as in every other civilized ing of representatives of the country. Even ender the former who managed to restore some sort different: newspaper offices has been order out of the chaos used in the regimes, it was no crime to Formed to fight the censorship. criticize the Government but, under affairs - by 'A. meeting was held at the: succession of useless directors, may the government of the people, for Soochow YM. C. Ay we learn the people and by the people, the shortly be coming to Shanghai to from. the *Sinwanpao," to which copie absolutely no" say: take-up some position in the Bureau the committee invited the leading Freedom of speech was a myth. of Foreign -Affairs here. Dr. Chang merchants and representatives was superseded in his directorship People expected something better of of the different. public organiza-the National Government, scme time ago. tions. At this gathering, the While in' Hankow Dr. Chat made Announcement was made that himself very well liked: by foreign the papers had decided to suspend ratepayers in the S.A.D3. Uy: his publication and the reasons swore
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