The Archive · 1925

A Novelist on China

The last issue out of the "China Express & Telegraph" notes that Mr. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, has got into trouble with the Government of Hongkong over his new novel, "The Painted Veil The case ly established a (Dut to the trou tering and deleting Tome time will elapse ere Mr. Somer: aces" "where, they write Grvany other, writer "ort hich Genment-of that Colon ually "ex

fection libraries contain books: with references to. ernment in the world, but {e'the fest to also an interview to the Mr. 8

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