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some clearer definition in writing of the limitations to be
placed upon newspapers in the Colony was necessary for the
protection of those responsible for their conduct.
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This necessity was further emphasised on the follow-
ing day when we submitted to the Censor the report of a debate
in the House of Commons on the powers of the Press Censor in
the United Kingdon, In returning the proof he volunteered
the opinion that the positions in England and Hongkong were not
analagous, as the Press in the Colony was controlled by virtue
of Para. 8 of the Order-in-Council of October 16th, 1896, the
closing words of which were underlined for our guidance, viz,
"Such person shall,...................... be deemed to be under the command
of the Officer Go-manding His Majesty's troopa". Our views
upon this were indicated in our issue of January 21st., and
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vere more fully set forth in a letter addressed to Capt. Thick
nesse on the following day, in which the opinion was expressed
that it was "misleading to divorce Section 1 of the Governor's
Proclamation from the subsequent sections which define the
powers indicated in Clause 1", and that it seemed "inconceivable
that the Imperial Government would sanction in the Crown Colonies
a policy it has so deliberately repudiated at Home".
We are, of course, anxious to co-operate most loyally
with the authorities in the surpression of anything likely to
prove "a danger to the State", but the discretion of the Censor,
against which there is no appeal, has been stretched far beyond
this point. In these circumstances, the adoption of some such
regulation as that made in the Straits Settlements, which does
not travel beyond the limits laid down in the House of Commons
debate on November 23rd., would appear to be service both to
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