"Observer"
Government ban has been placed on the newly-launched re: View, the "Observer," and postal have been withdrawn. The \dministration's. action came to ight when a clerk in the employ of the publi was sent to the Rue clu Consular sub-Post Office to mail a parcel containing ten copies of the "Observer." He was revested to open the parcel and was then told by the postmaster charge that he had received orders to withhold postal facilities from the publication.
This being the first intimation received by the Editor, Mr, Edward Dunn, that postal facilities had been refused, he addressed a letter to the Postal Commissioner, asking whether a ban actually existence. Mr. A. M. Chay plied on Friday that the tion given to the clerk was correct. The "order, he added, originated from the Foreign Office, to which Mr. Dunn might apply for further information.
"The decision of the Chinese authorities to place a postal ban on the 'Observer' came as a distinct Surprise to me, and I am still not aware of the reasons behind such action. Independent opinion been sought by me regarding the contents of the two issues (July and August, already published, but there does not seem to be anything which can be construed as insidious, or which has been directed against the Nanking Government," states Mr. Dunn, "pene, there has been some criticism in various certain exit and the Manchoukuo qui tion has been discussed from novel Jangles, which hitherto have been jearefully avoided by the majority of Shanghai publications, but surely this does not constitute a breach of existing Chinese press laws. The ban merely goes to prove that the much. vaunted liberty of the press expressed in recent proclamations issued at Nanking does not exist at all in China. As there are no grounds for this summary action, the ban is strongly resented and the matter will be taken up with istry of Foreign Affairs at
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