The "Min Sen Pao" case is only tone of a number of recent contro verses involving the press and officials. Chu Ming-yl, secretary (general of the Executive Yuan, threaened to sue a local daily, the "Chu Kuo Jin Pao," which. commented unfavourably on his appearing in Chinese operatic performances, and his sponsoring of shuttle-cock games, kite fying, and bicycle contests. The case, however, was dropped. Two other local daily newspapers suspended publication for two days for the tinting of the full text of the Sino-Turkish Treaty of Amity before the treaty was ratified.
Another amusing case has been reported from Honan. The court-report-jer of a Honan newspaper gave a too vivid description of the appearance of 1 Judge at the court who, the paper faileged, was "shaking his head and wagging his tall.
The reporter was PFO promptly sentenced on a contempt of court charge. Presmmen throughout the country rallied to the support of the reporter and the case was nationally. known as the "shake:
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