With regard to whether the Emergency Regulations were contrary to Royal Instructions, which conferred equal rights and privileges on persons of European descent and those who were not, the magist rate said that it was incontrovertible that if any European printer or publisher, printed or published matter in the Chinese language, he in common with any other person was subject to and bound by the Censorship Regulations. That no Europeans, continued His Worship, did publish Chinese newspaper in the Colony was quite beside the point.
Malicious Articles material words in the publications are (in the issue of 9) Warnings to our Chinese. of us who wish to maintain our nationality must refrain from using Japanese goods. If your enthusiasm is going to last only for five minutes, you might as well become slaves ina lost country', and (in the issue of May 10) All our countrymen arise ina body and active. The Japanese have cruelly challenged us and cruelly murdered our Chinese off 1d people. Be unanimous, in severing economic relations with Japan "The paragraph in the issue of May 9 is a direct exhortation to the Chinese members of the general Public to refrain from dealing with the Japanese in the course of trade, and the paragraph in the issue of May 10 is clearly intended to per-sade the same members to-carry on active boycott. A bona fide trade publication, in respect of -any paticular goods, urging the preferential buying of British goods is a practice internationally recognized as a mete puffing of one's own wares, whereas a boycott is deliberately intended in its result to deprive the persons
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