Canton, Feb. 19.
'Two movements which spell progrois were started here during the' week, and both"have made consi derable headway. Absolutely unrestricted liberty of the press is demanded by the newspaper fra-eternity, while a start has been made in cleaning up the prisons in country districts as well as in Canton.
It was high time somebody was doing something towards winning back the freedon# which the public journal has lost in South China, of editors without giving them trial or even a hearing, and demanding that censorship of news shall be discontinued. Only last week, four plants, those of the "Kuo ' Wah Payo," "Kung Ping Pao," "Yuet: Wah' Pao," and "Yin Tseung Pao," were closed down for day because the owners had failed to heed the command of the goverament censor denying them the right to publish fan item that had to do with the minal activities of two detectives of the Canton police department. Every word of it was true, but, nee the "emperor" sitting there on the censor's throne had decreed that it should not be, the newspapers should have thrown the story in the wastepaper basket. Since they did not do $0, they were forbidden to issue their next day's edition. One paper, the "Kuo Wah Pao," although it kept its regular edition off the streets that morning, kept up work' inside its plant, getting ready the: next day's sheets. That was looked upon by the police office as a further transgression of the law, and the "Kuo Wah Pao" was closed for a day longer.
Nanking ignored Despite the mandate of the Central Government removing the censorship throughout Nationalist territory, mothing has been done towards putting an end to the war-ime regulations here, excepting to) shift the responsibility of blue pen-oilling news items from military' headquarters to the office of the Chict of Police. Any official who has imagined that a paper ly friendly to him has not hesitated get it into hot water, important articles teliing of government actions have been delated, and eritieism of the government has bee. tabooed. A few days age, a private individual used inf to have representative of one journal hi an who had taken offence giving exhibitions has just beer and the one hi is the eral Che Ming-chu, th urman, addressed the gathering tes from all together to this new organization under Iie does not think much of papers, and did not mince matters in saying so. What! he complained about most vas that y have not changed a bit in the fort twenty years,
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