"Chinese-American Daily News" was ordered by the S.MLC. 1 suspend publication for two weeks commencing from January 31, 1910, for publishing highly objections! articles, The "Shanhai News; mosquito newspaper. was ordered {o suspend publication on Janua-y 20, 1040, for publishing objectionadie article, No less than 18 newspapers in the Chinese language were warned by the police for publishing obj able matter. One Chinese 1 tite paper and an English weekly Were warned for publishing: indecent articles oF advertisement.
'A total of six foreign and 24 Chinese publications were registered with the Municipal Police dur inst Fantary, 1940, while six newspapers ud" magazines ceased publication during. the same period.
Tu all 133-films' comprising 96 fea~ ture productions, 82 short introductory films and fifteen newsreels were censored in the various theatres in the International Settlement and the French Concession. Of the feature films, 25 were approved without ques tion, ten were passed after objection fable party had' been deleted, while the remaining one was not approved. Of the short films, 81 were passed without question and one was not approved. One newsreel was approved without question and fourteen were approved with cuts, Large shipments of foreign _rice were imported and small quantities Of domestic rice arrived from the neighbouring districts during January. The local stock of see nice became exhausted. Towards the middle of the month the prices of both kan mee and Saigon rice increase but the price of kan mee did not openly exced the limit of $40 per zar. Com-noneing from January 21, 100 rice }ops in the Iniernational Settlement and French Concession sold Saigon rice at cheap rates, each customer being allowed to purchase rice dally to the value of $1.
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