Yellow journalism has become a menace tothe security of the govern= ment in Centon, and the government has set ott to improve the tone of the Canton newspapers. What led the authorities to wage war on those papers which have been featuring the writings of a degenerate type of "-mud-alingers was the discovery that the radicals Who heretofore have shouted communistie slogans from the housetops are now trying to discredit the government by leading astray the younger generation with their filthy articles.
The Municipal Kuomintang went afer the "Kunk Ping Po" and had its presses stopped for five days not #0 Jonge ago and this time it is the "Yin Tseung Po" which is to feel the hand of the law, and dating from this. morning fts sheets may not be told or distributed for two ks. "A writer for the "Kuo Po" nnd a columnist of the "New Ko Wah Po" have been arrested because of the trash they have been giving to their readers.
Hardly any one knows these writers by their true names, but myriads smile ut the mention es "Trench Gun", and "Dragon Well Libertines all, these young men have been in the habit of fociating with youthful women of Goubtful character, and have, it is charged, won the affections of many susceptible young maiden, hat they may give to the world the stories of their love affairs, drag-king the reputation of Canton womanhood im the dust.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.