"Free China"
Yesterday was Chinese Newspapermen's Day and in celebration of the occasion meetings were held in the interior of "free China," but owing to the changed situation no meetings were held by Chinese newspapermen in Shanghai. The Chinese press in sympathy with Chungking, however, urged local Chinese journalists to observe a three-minute silence at noon in memory of their assassinated colleagues and to try their best to collect money, for buying winter uniforms for Chinese soldiers, Chinese newspapermen here continued their work yesterday as usual.
The new regime in Nanking chose the day to hold a memorial meeting in honour of martyrs of the peace movement, several of whom were newspapermen. The meeting was to have been held yesterday morning in the auditorium of the Central Kuomintang. in Nanking. Relatives of dead supporters of Wang Ching-wei were reported to have gone to Nanking in large numbers to attend the meeting. It would" appear, however. that the day is generally accepted by both Chinese political factions the day for honouring newspaper: men, for the news about the day was also published by the "Central China Daily News," organ of the new Nanking regime, urging newspapermen to increase their efficiency and to mind their own business.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.