Letters from China Proper Closely Watched Any Chinese living In the Northeastern provinces who receives frequent "correspondence from China Proper ig held under suspleton by the Manchoukuo. authorities and may be arrested for investigation at eny time, according toa new arrival from the' North-cast.
'Ail incoming and outgoing mails, he said, are strictly censored. To avoid arousing the suspicion of the censors most Chinese. voluntarily write to their relatives' and friends In China Proper hot to write any etter fo them unless there are very All Chinese, rich or poor, he continued, are living in great nervousness in Manchuria. The gentry as well og all those of some prominence re frequently put under survell-Jane without any particular reason, while those who do not try to frat nize with the Japanese or Manchou-Kuo authorities are also arrested on suspicion of being reactionaries, Tt is said that. beginning from February, a drive will be launched by the Manchoukuo government to purge all revetionary or" disloyal thoughts, Anyone "who ts found to be reactionary in thought or even hold an aloof attitude toward Manchoukuo will be subject to strict survelllance and Investigation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.