[Printed matter, containing com finnnist propaganda, seized "by the Police in the course of demonstra fons and aids daring the' month, comprised 17,288 copies of books, pamphlets, cartoons, ete. This literature included 84' different kinds Jof handbills in Chinese which had previously seen and several addressed to" members [Shanghai Defence Force.
Counter-Measures against Com-Imunists.—Measures adopted by the Municipal Police for the suppression Jof Communists and other subversive cements included the searching of nine addresses and the apprehension fand prosecution of 41 Chinese for lottences of a communist character. [The cases against all the scoused were still on remand at the end of [the month.
Agitation Against Payment of atunieipal Rates and House Rent A-movement to further demands for the remission house rents for the: period of the Sino-Japanese conflict jand non-payments of Afunicipal taxes for the second quarter of 1032 was started during the month. 'The bulk of the promoters of the mov ment are members of the Citizens' of [Federation of Street Unions.
Film Censorship.—Thirty-seven feature films and 16 "shorts" and newsreels were censored during the month in theatres in the Settlement land French Concession, Of these two wore rejected as unsuitable for local "exhibition, while three were ely approved after, parts to which the Police Censors objected had been Jeut out. The members of the Board lof Censors were called to he two pictures which, had isappro the They to. allow one of the filmo, Yellow Ticket," but upheld the Jdecision of the police and rejected the other as unit for local exhibition.
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