Shanghai, Aug. 4.
Action of the most exceptional and unheard-of nature was taken yesterday by the Chinese Post Office in regard to the "North-China Daily News."
A considerable number of copies of this paper are daily sent to the Post Office to be mailed throughout China and abroad, and following the usual practice these were delivered at the office at an early hour of the morning, and the customary receipt 18 given.
At 10 m. a telephone message was received to the effect that instructions had been given that 2 "North-China D:
ily News" was refused transmission through the Post Office, and a request was made that the papers should be taken away.
This was done.
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As a matter of fact, the local military officials have established a strict censorship of the press, so that no war news unfavourable to themselves appears in any of the vernacular papers. Censors tually stationed in each of the Chinese papers, who read every.
copy and delete anything which displeases them. An unbiased statement of the news then can only bbe found in the foreign press, wi these military censors cannot control. The attempt then to close the ost offices to the "North-China Daily News" is in reality an effort to suppress the only open forum for the publication and discussion of the news.- The military authorities have recently been sending out reports with Yegard to the recapture of Hsuchowfa, which are believed to be false.
The Nationalist Government maintains two news agencies in Shanghai which have been providing the press with news, one the Kuo Min News: Agency which is associated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the other, the Central News Agency the Kuomintang Party. Whenever, news from these agencies has been of interest to our readers or has. been acceptable as correct, it has been published in the "North-China Daily News."\ Bat no newspaper can accept blanket reports of any news agency as the vernacul is forced to do by the local authorities,
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