1941-04-21 — Page 27

THE CHINA MAIL'S WINDSOR HOU, SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 21, 1941.

VITAL PART IN LIFE

OF THE COMMUNITY

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The "China Mail”

No useful purpose would be served furnishing, in a publica-

Herald" The "Sunday

later Kong, is performed by means of

went to eight columns to the a travelling crosshead, which car

in ries the cylinder and inking ról-page, with a column width ler. The cylinder prints the harmony with the "China Mail" paper on both the forward and and again the result has fully the return stroke, top and bot Justified the experiment. tom simultaneously. During - the operation of printing, the paper running through the machine is stationary over the formes, but the paper as a whole continues to revolve at the same speed. m order that the paper may remain stationary whilst receiving impression and that the speed of the paper reel should be constant, the maching

with Is equipped equallsing device for taking up the slack which would other- wise be accumulated between the Feeding-in roller and the draw- ing-out rollera.

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Even Speed

the

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In this way, the paner is f into the press at an even speed and drawn out at an even spel, stopping whilst the longin of page is being printed. The paper then travels at double the speed through the press. stopping nga 1 for another impression and so on. Introduction of this machine permitted

Immediate numerous improvements to be effected in the lay-out of the "China Mail" and "Sunday Herald."

The "China Mall", already printed for some time as a tabloid, was enabled to increase the num- ber of its columns from four to five and the striking advance in the general appearance which resulted was instantly appreciat- ed, both by readers and adver- tisers. Column length was in- creased, page arrangemen's were changed to advantage, improve ments which without the Duplex would not have been possible.

it

before the "China Mail" but was the "China Mall" alone that survived, and It can claim con- tinuous publication since Febru

after ́ary 20, 1845, four years

the establishment of the Colony.

From the very

outset, the "China Mail" has played a vital part in the life of the community, bren though it has naturally exalted

has and

just Jogged

A battery of linotype machines in the printing establishment of Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.

tion of this type, a long history of the paper. It is sufficient to say, perhaps, that the history of the Press in Hong Kong is insepar- ably linked with the history of the” “China Mall,”

Three English papers actually started publication in the Colony

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along, according to a procession of men and circumstances.

Forthright Comment

In the early days of Hong Kong journalism, more than one

local editor was prosecuted, some of them going to prison. Editors were then outspoken in a man- ner which to-day would be deem- cd "vulgar and scurrilous," al- though as more than one histor- lan has recorded, "now that the passage of time has enabled clearer view to be taken of the picture as a whole, there much in the early life of Colony that called for blunt, forthright comment and criticism.

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For instance, Mr. W. H. Donald fone of the former editors of the "China Mail") wrote that the Bowring administration was "a disgrace to the British name."

The editors of the "China Mail' were several times singled out for attack, and, two years after the birth of the journal, Mr. wus the Shortrede, is editor,

victim of a prosecution so vexa- tious that even the Crown Pro- secutor refused to have anything to do with it.

Nd Favours

For some eight years, the "China Mall" was the official or- exclusively gun of the Colony,

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publishing all Government noti- fleations. This privilege, how- ever, did not prevent the

paper from criticising the Government as freely and as honestly as It enjoyed no favours, and be- cause of this the Government started its own journal in 1853, the "Government Gazette."

Offsprings of the "China Mail" are the "Overland China Mali" week's news) (containing the and the "Hong Kong Sunday Herald", which has the largest circulation of any English paper in South China.

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