Twenty-six Chinese members of the editorial Staff of the "Standard," or "Wen Wei Pao," British-owned language daily, and one of the four Chinese language newspapers recently placed under official ban in the French Concession and the International Settlement, yesterday adopted the unusual procedure of publicly advertising a protest against a possible change in editorial policy.
The group announced that they would not participate in editorial work unless the editorial policy question was settled. They have roques ed the owners not to change their original policy.
The "emergency announcement" is in the form of an advertisement pubed by the editorial staff in the "Sin Wan Pao" and it indicates that before a satisfactory reply has been obtained from their management they would not do editing and reporting work. It is said that the Chinese manager, Mr. Yen, has resigned and this might have led the editorial staff to make the request.
The paper is expected to be published again in the next few days but whether or not the new trouble will delay its publication remains a question. Chinese press circles believe that anyway the paper might not publish its evening edition.
The paper began its publication more than a year ago and enjoyed great popularity among Chinese readers. It has been bombed several times by alleged pro-Japanese terrousts. Its publication was banned about two weeks ago because it published a speech made by General Chiang Kai-shek which was contrary to the policy of maintaining peace and order, Not very long ago, two persons posing as representatives of Mr. Wang Ching-wei were reported io have approached the management ai the paper asking for a change of policy in exchange for cash subsidies but the offer was rejected.
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