San Francisco, Apr. 30.
Seventeen tons of assorted fareiem propaganda. shipped to. the United States by way of Soviet Russia and Tanan, have been burnt at the Post Office here.
Pretal ofüeisls refused to. allow public examination'of any of the confiscated reading matter bnt "^id that the bulk of it had come from Germany and the U.S.S.R, with lesser contributions from Italy and Janan.
Thousands of magazines. countless copies of a well-bound book extolling one of the dictatorships and a mass of newspapers and circulars were included in the material destroyed.
"We are going to continue to destroy this type of material as fast as we receive it" the Postmaster. William H. McCarthy told reporters.
Some of the forbidden literature has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of, Investigation for study. Reuter. rmm
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