The Archive · 1938

Another Newspaper

Suspends Peiping, Aug. 22.

Following close on the heels of the "Hua Pei Jih Pao," another Chinese language paper under Japanese auspices has suspended publication. 8 farewell address to its readers, the "Chin Pao "or Progressive Paper, says that it fs "voluntarily going out existence in deference to the wishes fof the Government and also to do Its bit in the national thrift ear The paper adds that therefore its Alsappearance should not be taken fas an occasion for lamentation but tone for rejoicing. "We hope that our contemporaries will take our hint and suspend publication or ahead."

'The paper was started on May 28 Inst year and has therefore been in existence a little over fourteen' months. First known as "Sheng. Pao," it was suspended by the Chinese authorities for a few days because it "dared to wage war on the crowd of demons." It resumed publication after the outbreak of the Lukouchino incident, and according! to the farewell editorial, it became Increasingly popular with the local public.

Tt is reliably learned that _the suspension of the "Hua Pel Jih Pao" and the "Chin Pao" form part of the movement for the control and rationalization of the local Chinese Ionguage press—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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