Question Over Holding Up Of Correspondent's Message In reply to a question at Jan. 17 Japanese conference, as to why 18-hour delay had been exper enced in the censorship of n message Mled on Jon, 10 by Mr. HI, Timperley, correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," the spokes: man stated that, "since the occu tion of Shanghai by the Japanese Army, censorship is the right and prerogative of the Japanese Army Censorship in the first instance was done by civilians in the employ 0 the Japanese Government, Dut as st esort the Army had "the Mr. Timperley did not raise the question, which had been voiced by another correspondent, but in reply to an invitation to speak privately to the Embassy spokesman, M, Okimura, hho stated that this was impossible as che had already taken up the matter oMfcially with Embassy and Consular officials. It then was stated that His Majesty's Consular officials had approached Mr. Okimura, who replied that he would speak with Mr, Timperley regarding the cons ship, The latter put" no further remarks forward.
Replying to another question, the spokesman stated that there had been some misunderstanding about a report that the correspondent in question had been summoned to the Japanese Military Headquarters—as Mr, Tim-Perley had reported—it was "meant as an invitation {0 discuss the telegram with the military attache, They Fexretted the misunderstanding; what was meant was to discuss it with a competent military official.
Mr. Timperley then asked if the message had been sent, the reply. being, "The message was to have een sent if the correspondent and the military had come to sec the matter eyo to eye—in spite of hix efforts to get in touch with the correspondent, the censor had not been able do' so," Mr. Timporloy replied, was home "until 1230 am, to-day."
Other correspondents asked whether this was meant to infer that no open censorship. existed, i.e, that the press representatives would be me formed whether the censors had stopped a message, The spokesman replied that it was the Japanese intention to maintain an open cen ship, but as this correspondent. had refused to discuss his telegram with the military, no open censorship, could exist in his ease. This decision ala not apply to "other correspon-has been stated that incorporated in Mr. Timperley's message were statements that 300,000 Chinese lvilians had been executed follow:
Ing the Japanese occupation of the Shanghai-Nanking area Aston a brief visit in Shanghai, Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, spokesman for the [Japanese Government in his. capacity fas. Director of the Gaimusho's Information Bureau, left here for Japan on the s, Nagasaki Maru fon' Jan, 10, Also' aboard the vessel was Miss Fumiko Hayashi, 0 leading Japanese authoress, who was visiting here to gather information and impressions for a work based on the current conflict.
Ascated by the Japanese sentries at the Hungjao Road barrier.
Another gardener, also employed by a Briton, attempted a day or two ago to bring some native rice in to hhis relatives, having found that the Saigon rice—which was all he could get in the Setilement—was not quite Suitable for either invalids or youn: children. The rice was kept for 24 hours by the sentries and then returned to him after he had been forced to pay $10.
On other occasion, the small lorry Jalready referred to was commandeered by a Japanese soldier, who pushed the driver out of the vehicle and drove off into the country. "There he collected a pile of his own belongings. brought these back and then returned the lorry to its driver. The taken by the Japanese soldier wax about seven miles, the chauffeur tater Feported, and took about an hour.
It is also reported that the danger of looting in the Hungjao area, particularly of unwatched properties, 1s, daily growing greater. While most of the houses have watchmen on. the premises, a great deal of unbuilt property' is "merely protected by Wooden" fences, which are removed large slices" by the Chinese. This is done right under the very eyes of the Japanese soldiers and of the Chinese police officers under rheic control. It is reported, furthermore that the sentries at "the bat charge the looters fifty. cents a bun to let them through, Competent observers state that this is fust developing into a veritable traMe, and that it ig not stopped immediately Chinese from other districts may visit Hungjao to help in the looting.
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