in Chekiang The enormous demand. for: the skins of unborn lambs for the fur markets of America has Jed to such slaughter of ewes that the extinc~ ion. in. ten yea i filed in the District Court. For }good measure they have had Wang! Kweilu made a ce-defendant. Wang is one of the Provincial JCoureil, and is one in public life) who has not been sympathetic with the cause of the would-be Chancellor. He too happens to. be the nominal head of the "Man Kuo vat Po,"
Saturday the case was called at! the District Court. Eminent coun-_ lsel_on both sides were present. Those who will speak for the plain-its were there; neither defendant showed up. A letter from the Provincial Council was perused by jthe court. The Council has written the Central authority for instructions. Only when @ reply has. Jeome will Wang Kwei-lu appear at la court hearing. As for Ho Tsulheng, he is not even in Canton. When his ill-advised article was tread in the "Man Kuo Yat Po' such a flame of indignation was; kindled that he had to berake himself to a distant shore where he: would be more kindly treated. [Some say he has gone to Shanghai. The letter read, the attorney for the plaintiff made a motion for a continuance, It may be some time before the trial will occur, if ever.
Pung Ko, one the ringleaders in plot against Nanking's appointed, in the old days was a Communist, but had reformed, and Iwas in the good graces of the aunchest of the government's supporters. For a youth who has still not graduated from the university, Fung has had an exciting Jearecr, Involved in this mess at [the school where ho is studying, began to be said that he had again Whether or} been carefully' looked into. But it has been found that there is no reason to suppose: that the boys and girls who have eq been making such trouble have been lurged on by persons in the employ, Jof Moscow.
Freedom of the press in Canton is still a huge joke. It is as conspicuous by its absence as over. Nor will any really big personage me forward in defence of the right of the ditties to print what they want to print without governmental interference. Chen Ming-she, Provincial Chairman, was approached by a delegation only yesterday, and was profoundly ignorant of what has been going, No encouragement was obtain-his office.
Combining in a fresh spurt gein their liberty, the Fourth Estate held a meeting yesterday morning, and then sent those xepresentatives to call upon the [Governor. "They have taken fresh! courage from the example set by three of the dailies which have! taken the bit between their teeth nnd have not, since the 16th of the month, been inclined te pay much attention to the official censors, ernment over the affair.
'Aa is well known, Chekiang lambskin for' its. exceptional sheen and silkiness, these qualities being entirely due to the ewes being fed. on mulberry leaves. Of these there is a great amount in the provingo, mulberry trees having been cultivated for many yeara for the silk industry, in which Chekiang leads the rest of China, Of recent years an enormous demand for these lambskins, has come from America, especially. for: ems with extremely "moire" pattern, The latter are almost invariably the skins of lambs Whose mothers have been ed before: giving birth.
The hair of lambs grows rapidly after birth, The three all have strong backing. which gives them the courage: to" be rather independent. The fan Kuo Yat Po," mouthpiece of the Provincial Kuomintang, has} Met had a single piece of news pose the censor's hands since. the 16th when the edict of Nanking was promulgated that no longer' shall there be an official censorship. Both the "Shi Ching Yat Po," published by the municipality, and the /"Kuangchow Yat Po," which speaks for the Municipal Kuomintang, Ihave had the censor Hae pencil for of their news notes, but very few indeed. So why, argue the editors, should the-others be obliged to knuckle under? Yet the military heads say that there is still revolu-ion in Kuangsi, and to long as there is a state of war the mai the quality.
Asa result of this dealers. upcountry: have been paying as much as $5.4 skin for the unborn variety, This is. leading to a wholesale slaughter: of ewes throughout: the province, so much so that, if. the massacre is not checked, merchants predict that the whole species will. be extinct within a decade. Shanghai merchants have therefore peti-ioned. the Government. to prohibit
tain the skin of the unborn lamb.
slaughter of ewes in order to date of the Central Government {cannot be put into effect.
On the night of December 16, the censors were told to leave off Jociing over copy sent by the various news office. They were away for a. few hours, and then G. HQ. had them back on the job From December 17 ea, they ha boon: at: work making. life unbearable for all of the dailies which have not the support of one or sanuther public oF semi-public institution,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.