York, Paris or even Shanghai. On other hand, messages of Japanese news agencies were given unobstruct. ed passage. Chinese authorities have not always been so slow to realize the importance of having their case fully before the world. Thus in 1932, when little or no obstruction ws offered to foreign newspaper corres pondents ju China, her case was so quickly and so efficiently presented the public at large, that half the battle of gaining the support of world opinion was won long before the advocates of both sides locked lorns at Geneva. The matter is of some importance as can be apprecia fated by the fact that press opinion in London, for example, has been slower in making itself heard than has been case in former instances. It is Perfectly conceivable that censors may at times err in the matier of what should or should nob be sent out of the country in the way of news, though even in this respect there is much ground for criticism, but when censors by their actions actually do their own country harm by refusing to pass news designed to be of service to the nation, their be. haviour cannot be regarded in any very favourable light
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