Following the recent suspension of four foreign-owned Chinese language newspapers by the Shanghai Municipal Council for publishing expressions which were considered to be detrimental to the maintenance of peace and good order in the Settlement, a Chinese printing house, the Pu Yi Press, situated in Chengtu Road, had its certificate of registration cancelled for one month yesterday following a raid carried out by officers of the S.M.P. Special Branch and Japanese officers when certain books and other publications were seized.
As reported in the "North-China Daily News" the Pu Yi Press was raided on May 22 by S.M.P. officers at the request of the apanese authorities. Most of the literature taken away was discovered later to be of an anti-Japanese and pro-Communist type. It is understood that the manager of the establishment had been warned twice by the police to control the publications issued by the establishment but he did not do so. Yesterday, however, he was found to have flown.
This is the first printing establishment to have been closed in the city since the Council's edict against publishing articles and literature likely to cause disturbances of the peace was issued. Among the books seized were "Western Front Life," "Principal of the Communist International" books dealing with co-opera tion between the Kuomintang and the Communist party and one entitled "Social Thought" The press is Chinese-owned.
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