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long period, the world recurrent has experienced a series of upsetting events and successive periods of internia-- tional tension. Rarely has the temperature dropped anywhere near normal.. Yet the Press has a whole has responded to the si- tuation in commendable manner.

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 There have been one or two lapses, but to suggest that these have created the tension is semi-hysteria.

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Hong Kong, Monday, August 7, 1939.

THE PRESS AND AUTHORITY

Sense of strain is inevitable. The war on nerves is an import- ant tactical method in the inter- national struggle. Yet the press critics would have it: God's in His Heaven and all's right with the world as long as you don't listen to the wireless, or

read the newspapers, or shudder at the posters, are blind, deaf, mentally defective or preferably dead.

The newspapers prefer to ful- fil their function, which is to re- port things as they are, and to keep the public fully prepared for all possibilities. We think the public, too, has that healthy instinct which rejects the exag- gerated and which would reject also a dictated press, compelling them to swallow peptonised dope.

At it is, the official decree is technically împracticable, unless censors are prepared to wait up until 3 a.m. in the morning for the morning and Sunday papers. That, however, is beside the real point, which Whatever the public may think is that it represents the thin about it, if any serious thought need not point the fallacy which end of the wedge of dictation. We

has been given to the matter at would approve that course.

all, the Order-in-Council gazetted on Saturday, empowering censor- ship of the contents bills of the British Press in this Colony, is

It.

must be self-evident. The press. would be distrusted the moment. any form of censorship was im-- posed.

The sound relationship between the Press and authority is one:

of direct concern to them, as of complete frankness on one much as it is to the newspapers side; loyal discretion on the: concerned. It is not necessary to other; and mutual co-operation repeat here what has already been in educating and steadying pub- lic opinion in times of stress or written on this subject by the emergency. Were Goverment. "Sunday Herald", beyond re-as-able honestly to suggest that the sertion of the menace which lies Hong Kong press had ever seri- behind an 'apparently mild de-ously failed it at any important. moment on any important issue, we could see an official-mind Whispering campaigns having motive for this exasperating as their object the muzzling of the poster business. And still, of

it for the course, resist

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principle involved. are nothing new in newspaper ex- perience. Such efforts have been

cree.

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it makes dull papers, if you may instance, that some of them even. take as an example the "British supply needles and thread in Gazette," which not even Mr.every room for the use of women visitors. It is now reported that Churchill could make readable. I a Chicago hotel has carried the would rather have misinform-spirit of enterprising fore-sight ed criticism by a free press than still farther. It has adopted ar the adulation of a kept Press expedient to relieve the gossible embarrassment of persons who Now the first move has been have a superstitious dread of made in Hong Kong. It seems to sitting down thirteen at table. If have been inspired by a belief a dinner party is reduced to this that it was the "China", Mai, unlucky number the hotel man

agement will supply a dummy |which invaded Austria, the "Hong figure, in full evening dress,

Kong Telegraph" which created take his place. Such a substitu

tion, one might suppone, dan the September Crisis, the Morn

hardly encouragé conviviality. It ing Post" which raped Czechoslo» must surely be the next thing to and the “Daily Press" having a skeleton at the feast.. ordered the blockade of doubtless less dépréésing than the

But the effect on some Minds

dact is that

apprehension, which. It is intend” overed to dispel.