The censor is quite busy in Japan, chiefly for the purpose of preventin people knowing that there is a war on in China. At least that is how it started, Now, of course, greater care has to be taken in newspaper accounts published there to prevent the Chinese ascertaining the whereabouts of certain Japanese unit: Thus an account, taken from the "Japan Chronicle:
Mr. Paul Amos, a Princeton student, supplies the following extracts from his diary of events of last week-end:—5 "Most of us pack before lunch in anticipation of evacuating at short notice. We decided to move as soon after lunch as possible. After two or three of us finished packing we started off to the Palace Hotel; we had been thers half an hour when four of started to play bridge, but I thong! 1 would go to the' Bund to get a better view of the excitement T saw five Chinese aeroplanes flying towards the—which was firing its. anti-aircraft batteries while the Chinese on the wharf were clapping and cheering the arrival of their planes.
"Looking up I saw more planes directly overhead. The—again fired, In ParentHesis, desiring to be perfectly fair to both sides, naturally refrains from publishing the fact that it was the "Idzumo" the Chinese aviators were trying to bomb. Up to the present it is believed that the Chinese do not know where the vessel is.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.