Nanking, Mar. 20, Addressing a group of 50 Chinese newspapermen and. correspondents, at a dinner reception last night, Mr. Shao Li-tze, Director of the Central Publicity Department of the Kuomintang, declared that press censorship in China at present is still necessary. He admitted, however, {hat there, may be too much "red po" in the present system but promised to take steps to improv the situation to facilitate the workings of the press, Exhorting the members of the Fourth Estate to assist the' country in achieving national—'unifteation and rejuvenation, the new publicity Girector asserted' that any news reports and presss comments which fare contrary to these two alms should be suppressed—Central News.
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