The Dauntless Press We believe that we have said nearly all that there is to say about, the Chinese Post Office and the action which the local foreign Comtnissioner has taken in denying the North<China Daily News" the use of the mails because we were not sympathetic with the Nanking manifestation of "Nationalism." We may even have been guilty at times of repeating ourselves for the sake of making the issue clear and we had not proposed to revert to the subject until we had something new to say; but a Tientsin contemporary, the "North China Daily Mail," has' been good enough to take up the cudgels for us and to contribute editorially a few new and valuable thoughts which are worth submitting to the postal authorities, the Chinese and the general public" We reproduce below the text of the "North China Daily Mail's" comment:
The collapse of the Nanking} Government following Chiang Kalshek's timely departure will, we hope, lead to the early restoration of the "North China Daily News' postal circulation. It seems pre-pesterous that a moribund local Government should have the power to cause so much inconvenience to a foreign newspaper, and that its will should by carried' into effect by a foreign Postal Commissioner. There ime, at Tientsin for instane when the Post Office went out of its into its! and "granted various facilities to that end.—The. Post Office has kept up its efficiency, generally speaking, in a remarkable way. A refusal to carry particular newspapers, however, offends rot only the newspaper but every reader who wishes to see the paper, and must tend sooner or later to the establishment of other methods of delivery, which may be quicker and for, in some respects, than the Post Office. the long run the Press is stronger than a Government Depart ment in these matters. Most Governments have attempted at some time or other to suppress news produced the most interesting] Squared and contour maps of Shanghai: also many other departments which the men in the street hardly suspected of having an existence. One ordnance officer is said to have brought} with him aboard a transport something like a hundred and] fifty thousand pounds' worth of clothes and boots and so forth, jand the army had not been long in being before an Army Pay' Department was advertising for tenders from financial houses for Papers unwelcome to them, and sometimes they have succeeded, but not, as a rule, in the case of a well-established newspaper. It is easier to Kill a Government than a news-
Paper, as Chiang Kai-shek must! have realized by now.
"The Times" tly quoted attempts made'by the British Government over 100 years ago to close it up on account' of its strong.
foisms of the wretchedly mis-aged Walcheren expedition. The Government deprived the John Walter of that day of his post as printer to the Customs, stopped hi newsletters from abroad while delivered those of journals supporting the Ministry, and finally attempted to bribe him, The Government failed while the newspaper went on with added strength.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.