Peiping, Feb. 1.
Mail censorship here has reached serious proportions, even Japanese mail not escaping attention, Five foreign Embassies in Peiping have had to make representations to the Japanese civil authorities against interference with their mai A large staff of censors is kept busy at the Post Office going through quantities of mail. Obviously not all mail can be censored, and it is deduced that mail is sorted for addresses that might cover interesting material—embassies, newspapers, correspondents, this applying to both incoming and outgoing mail.
Complaints of clumsily opened and reclosed envelopes are frequent, and often some of the contents are miss-
Tokyo, Feb. 8.
Officials of the Planning Board are busy drafting a plan for industrial development in Central China, according to the "Asahi Shimbun" today, The newspaper forecasts that a Bill for the incorporation of a Central China Industrial Development Company with capital at Y.100,000,- 000, ill be submitted to the Diet early in March.
The Company will be a holding company with subsidiaries financing electric, gas, motor-bus, marine and other utilities in the Shanghai area, except the International Settlement, and m Soochow, Wusieh, Hangchow, Chinkiang, Nanking, Kashing and elsewhere in Central China.—Reuter.
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