It is understood that Sir Miles Lampson, H. M. Minister, arrived at Woosung ast night but will not land at Shanghai until this morning. pressed. 'Their chief sin was in Tost cases, existence before the Nationalists came into power. In most cases also another' grievous offence lay in the fact that they]
sizable publishing plant, 2 circulation and a going concord which might very easily "be eon scated and renamed as Nationalist property. Each important. town in Nationalist area in Central and South China now is the proud pos-scaser of a "Kuo Jih Peo" oF offcial paper of the Southern party, Yalug from a news point of view! partially nil and flaunting the de-free that "no British advertising will be accepted." Among the towns affected may be mentioned, Nanking where the very old paper was suppressed to make way for} Nationalist aims, Hangchow, Chin-Kiang, Hankow, Changsha, Kiu-long, Canton, Kaihow, Nanchang and Shaoshing. In Shanghai, needs no reiteration, the official organ of Sun Chuan-fang, "The Shanghai Tribune" was rendered defunct in the usual unceremonious manner, and local Chinese newspapers at the present time, one may state without exception, "are the Patient burden-bearers of such propaganda as local military leaders think ft to insert and, by no means least, a "slogan a day" of unmistakable tifin.
Shanghai papers according to our information are endeavouring—to remain neutral. Wherefore it is to ibe noted that the following senti-upper reaches of each page. "The! Kuomintang party is the only party' for the Chinese Republic"; "'The people have a right to rule the local: istrict and to elect the local magistrate"; "We are finished with all unequal treaties" and as, this Chiang Kai-shek area, "Fight, sea inst Bolshevism."
sach Kuomintang newspaper now. includes on its stationery letter heads texts from the will of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in some cases southern flags, showing that the Nationalist Papers are subsidized.
News detrimental to the Southern cause, it goes without saying, finds no channel for distribution in these Papers. The advertising end publication, an aspect which hi never made any particular appeal to the average Chinese publisher as, he regards advertising a space-filler and not a revenue producing agent, has suffered in the same proportion. Very low advertising rates prevail for Chinese products and rate 50 per cent. higher in most, eases obtains for foreign advertise ments, Advertising in general has sunk to the nadir, according to local Jagencies. In the case of out-of-door advertising of products, the big sign boards erected throughout the province represent an instrument for additional taxation on the a dvertiser who a week later finds his blandishments on what to buy and where covered over, with Kuomin~ character. Io the ease of one loca tang principles' of—anti-forei
foreign advertiser's agent, $30,000, worth of out-door advertising apace een put to this use. Tu addition the foreigner's name glaces one corner of the boards admonishing. all Chinese against foreigners.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.