Postal Ban he non-arrival in Shanghai of issues of the King and Tientsin "Times ince' the and gust 1s ample proof of the report that that mal has been banned from the malls. It reported that this decision has been taken aust of the trenchant manner in which the orig concerning the alleged evacuation of janese from the British and French. Conces-us in Tientsin had been -handled editorially, it is stated that the British authorities jo already registered an emphatic protest. is dificult to understand why repeated. ference with the foreign Press in China has ed to convince the Japanese authorities that only are they failing in achieving their ime diate object, the suppression of unfavour-news and views, but they are actually ceeding ju emphasizing the signiteance of rything which they have sought to suppress. the precautions in the world could not pre~ the story of "Nanking last December ching the outside world, nor could the cen-ship which was exercised in. Shanghal_pre-1 the full story of the attack on the CN.A.C, plane over the Canton delta eventually ching this port. Suppression may delay the ation of the facts, but that delay gives m added significance, and in the end cen-ship detents the very objects which its. intion has in view. "Apart from that con-ration there 1s another and-an important When Japanese censors were installed in Chinese Post Office locally, it was specific.
stated that there would be no Interference h foreign mails. It has been shown on nervous occasions that that pledge is now ug honoured in the breach unnecessarily quently, as is also that regarding. the upulous respect to be paid to the interests third party Powers in China, One of se interests, certainly so far as Great Britain the United States of America are concerned tne freedom of the Press, and there have n Indications that in this respect as in ers due regard to promises has mot be paid the Japanese officials, It is probably true U'this 18 by no means at the desire of the per oMlcials, but rather to the eccentricities subordinates. who display all manner of aries tick Remedy Wanted considerable sympathy will be felt for those respondents "to. this journal, who have ten in complaining of the ordure. carts allowed to pass. along Rue clu Consular ciently. Tate in. the mornings to. inconveni people going to office, and it Is to be ed that the French Municipal Council will its way clear to doing something in the ter. It 1s fully realized that the enormous jonsiblities which have been thrown we municipalities during the past four months have created all manner of "un seen difficulties. New conditions have unusual strain upon the services both areas, and the remarkable feature, of is the way in which the many, and un-demands have been' met, On the other d there is a section of the public which eves that by now the two municipal ser shave had plenty of time in which to ist themselves to the new conditions, and the convenience of the residents should more considered than they were during the she of the emergency. It has to be. ed that, on both sides of Avenue Edward "when abuses have been brought to the tion of the authorities, some action has obtained, as witness. the ready. respon: certain letters appearing in this journal rerning the condition of the Siccawei ok, Steps are now being considered for iting about an improvement in that area, in making" that decision the French jotties are Warmly to be congratulated. The ition of the ordure carts seems to be tively''a more simple" matter, not only the point of view of the "appropriate edy, but also the cost of its application. A outing of their passage to the French Bund, the arrangement of an envller time-table us to be all that is necessary, and neither these should involve any very great ie. A quick remedying of this grievance, it is not a small one to those who have y {0 encounter it, would be very greatly roéiated by those who have to suffer from les in One ambition has led men to scale mountain ks, explore Polar wastes and make Jone across oceans but the satisfaction lying the success, in its way, can scarcely be iter than the satisfaction given the golfer does his hole in one, or the duffer who his hundred for the first time, The ctious habit of scoring direct from the tee breading alarmingly among Shanghai golfers within a week three have done a hole me at Hungjao and two of them were on sume hole, the 13th incidentally which ut to help in the slaughter of the super-on attached to this number. Mr. H. Cameron his on the sixth on Saturday, and 'A, Ricketts, holder of the China "Open uteur championship, and Mr, George Norris, local professional, did theirs on the 13th on sday. There were days when golfers who petrated this feat shared with footballers cricketers who did the "hat trick" certain esse from local firms to commemorate their veys, hut this practice seems to have fallen desuetude. Nevertheless, the feat is re-able and three in a row on the same course 1 week is worthy of note by those artistic niders of strange and almost incredible and colneldences. Paradoxically, rare as 1a feat is to one golfer—this isthe first one Mr, Norris has done in his many of golf—records show that to others it nere child's play. Alex. Herd did it 19 and curiously enough when he did his
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