Harmless Reports Held up Till Days After Known to All From ows Swatow, Oct. 26.
Thear that the newspapermen in this province are agitating for complete cessation of the tampering news by the censors who, the main, are under the control of the police authorities. Under pres: ent conditions, it is said, news-
Papers are only able to" report events many days after they have happened. By the time such events are reported in the papers, have been public property for day: There ix no sense in all this censorship business, the newspapermen maintain, The suppression of news tends to circulation of—rumours and agitators are always on the alert for opportunities to enlarge, The "Canton Gazette," for example, has only just appeared with "news' of the opening ceremonies of the new Science Hall of Lingnan University, an event that took place many days ago and had been promptly reported by the Hongkong. papers. The newspapermen say that in some cases drafts of reports have been mis laid by the censors who. when asked about them, pretend not to have received them. Even in Japan, where the lice are so keen on' suppressing dangerous thoughts," the censors do not have such great powers as those hereabouts. was not an opium has now petitioned the National Government to put him under medical examination, and says that he has postponed his trip to Foochow for that express purpose.
Heneral disapproval with the ulations of the opium charges found in the' new Chinese Criminal Code was voiced at today's session. It was pointed out by some delegates that the mew code, which imposes a fine of not niore than $1000 on persons guilty of smoking opium is more lenient [than the old ande which provides.
addition to the fine, one year's penal servitude, Reversion to the old code as regards punishment of opium smoking was favoured, and resolution - passed urging its adoption by the National Government.
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