That Dr. C, T. Wang did telegraph to Mr, Chu Chao-hsin is tra beyond the shadow of a doubt, but his message treated of the delineation of the boundaries of Bacao.
It is not to be doubted that the Portugese Government and the Na tionalist Government are making an honest effort to properly mark the limits of this colony so that an ancient cause of friction may be removed. The evidence gathered by ce of the newspaper fraternity points clearly to the fact that the contents of Dr. Wang's telegram were purposely misrepresented by some official oF officials in the Kuangtung government.
It is well known to all newspapermen here that the press service that gave these distorted facts to the local papers is partly subsidized by the local Foreign Office; that is to say, every month a certain sum of money is paid by this department to this news gathering organiza-ion, in exchange for which the press bureau has to give a certain amount of publicity to articles which the Foreign Office may wish the public to read. Something like 'a week ago, through this press bureau, the Foreign Office git before the Canton.public a statement of the accomplishments of one of its officials and the attempt was made to drive into the minds of the Cantonese the idea that this great benefactor of the Chinese was about to render another public service.
The Censor Fails Tt is most significant that the censor who peruses everything that the newspaper editors wish to print publication released the articler question. Had the Foreign Offi: e wished these items to appear in print, the government censor would not have let the newspapers have, the news; he either would have run his blue pencil across the page, or else he would have had to Took for another job, 'The Foreign Office has. been most unhappy to learn that foreigners living in Canton and Hongkong have Texrned that it has been engaged the little game of patting itself on the back. Anything may be force' down the throats of gullible Chinese, but naturally foreigners can see this story only in the light of a hoax. So it is that the Foreign Commissioner has been kept after hours assuring the foreign consuls and newspaper correspondents that the reports that were given space in the Hongkong newspaper were without foundation, and that he did of know how such an untrue statement could have been written, The Commissioner has 'net explained to any one how it happens that the vernacular journals of Canton printed the very same story after it had been handed to them by the press bureau to whose support the Foreign Office contr'iutes.
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