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It is obvious that a censorship carried on by such methods must be linefficient, either owing to the undue delay of letters by the censoring authori- ties, or by their failure to subject the mails to a sufficiently close scrutiny: but the fact that any correspondence is prohibited combined with efforts, as described above, to enforce this prohibition, is in itself a considerable step in the right direction.
I transmit herewith an extract from the "Japan Advertiser" of the 23rd. instant respecting the tardy steps being taken to prevent the conveyance of let- tere on board ships in Japanese harbours, whereby enemy subjects had hitherto been able to evade all risk of censorship.
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Copies of this despatch have been sent to the Adralral Commander in Chief on the China Station, to
the Governor of Hong Kong, and to the General
officer commanding His Majesty's Forces at Singapore.
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Conyngham Greene.
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JAPAN TIGHTENS MAIL CENSORSHIP.
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New Order Prohibits Mailing Letters en Shipboard
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Yokohama docks and place their correspondence on departing ships with the assurance that their mis- sives will receive a safe and prommt delivery, Japan- ese postoffice officials have ordered that no mail be received on shipboard or at steamship offices. Henceforth steamship-officials, both Japanese and foreign, will not accept letters for mailing.
The first liner to be affected by this new ruling was the Nippen Maru, which was scheduled to sail for San Francisco yesterday afternoon. Unfamiliar with the new order, more than sixty persons were disappoint. ed yesterday when they tried to plaɗe mail on the Niprem. These strict regulations have been adopted by the Japanese Goverment with the view of enforcing the censorship more strictly. All mail addressed to foreign countries must be sent through the regular
channels.
Since the censorship rules were tightened last December, five new post office officials, including a retired naval officer, have been employed in the Yokohama office. It is said that the authorities in charge of censoring the mails have discovered the process to be of increasing importance since the war.; The new officials employed at Yokohama are not believ ed a sufficient nwaber, and it is contemplated, en- gaging ten or twelve mode.
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