To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cinwa Dany News"
Sm/—There was recently a notice in your columns to the effect that the taking of photographs inthe famous Tien Tal Shan district in Chekiang has been forbidden by the authorities, In the course of the recent year had similar experiences in different parts of China. In Shanghai istrict the Pootung authorities are "hunting" all tourists desirous taking photographs in their district, in. Nanking photographing is forbidden. the foreign tourist coming often from very fat distances to sec the famous stone figures at Lungm near' Loyang, will be greatly di ointed to find out that police thorities will not allow him to take any photos of sime because some-[where in the surroundings is said to be a military aerodrome, When some time ago taking a snap of an old City Gate well Inside the town of Sinsiang (RIV. Honan), which surely.
of no strategic value at cal. 7 and friends of mine had a whole ay's trouble to convince the police that 1 was not at all a spy'but only. a harmless. tourist, But still more surprising was the fact that on a Fecent trip over the Canton-Hankow Railway T was forbidden by the Railway guards to take photos. from rain of the landscape when passing through the most picturesque North River Gorges, whilst it ts. only 2 recent innovation' that: the authori-fies "at Kaifeng and Chengchow taken into offices" at $50 or so per (Honan) do no more object to tourists
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