Nanking, Nov. 27.
Several important revisions to the Press Law, calculated to give more freedom to the publishing business, were passed by the Legislative Yuan ata general meeting this morning. The local police authorities no longer will have the power to give warning to, or exact fine from publishers, the loiter being responsible to the Court authorities only.
The original provision in the Pross Law forbidding papers" publishing articles on the private lives of individuals or their families is abolished, nor will it be necessary" any longer for papers to deposit a certain amount of money with the Govern-
'Codification' Sub-Committee, declared that the revisions" were designed equally to uphold the freedom of the press and to maintain the pease and order of society.
The Press Law, which was promulgated in 1990, sever has been en: foreed, because it aroused a storm of preiest from press circles throughout the country—Central News.
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