One of the great arguments on which Chinese publicists base their objection to the by-law which tha Council desire to introduce, for the registration of printers and publishers and the appearance of their names and addresses on their publications, is that no such law exists in England. Here is an instructive extract from an article on The Legal Year in its Relation to the Press" in the Newspaper Press Directory (London) for 1992:
During the past year there has been an unusually large number of convictions for printing pamphlets, handbills, and documents of various hinds without the name and address of the printer. In many cases heavy fines were impos. ed, the magistrates emphasizing la several of the cases that the defendants
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