A complaint was royistered by one [of the foreign correspondents at the Japanese press conference on. Jan. 21 to the effect that his loiters had been opened before they were delivered to him by the local Post Office. He asked when censorship of the mails was instituted, "No. mail censorship hag been instituted ar." he was told, The correspondent said that he had seven envelopes delivered to him in the afternoon, and four of these had been slit open with a knife, One, {ndeed, was empty, and he didn't think anything could have happened to them when they were brought here j|by ap American destroyer, Private letters in Jong-hand had not not been touched, but letters addressed to him by his paper, the "New York Times." had been' opened.
"The matter will have to. be vestigated," said the spokesman," far as we know, there Is no mail censorship.
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