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Report on the working of the Fostat Censorship

in Hongkong.

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(1):

By whom the Censorship is conducted.

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1. Censor.

REGE 29 JAN 16;

The censorship is conducted by the following staff;-

9 Assistant Censors.

Sorters.

3

Interpreters.

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2 Postmen.

The Censor is the Postmaster-General, the Assistant Censors

are partly Government officials and partly private individuals, the sorters are postal clerks and the interpreters are partly civil servants and partly private individuals. The censers work under the supervision of the General Staff Officer but are ultimately responsible to the Governor.

(2).

All mails are liable to censorship both Transit mails and correspondence sent à découvert. Chinese correspondence in closed mails is passed uncensored as a rule but bags containing Chinese postal matter only are opened from time to time to ascertain that no enemy correspondence is being forwarded. A large number of such mails pass through the local General Post Office. Closed Nails from Japan or Japenese Post Offices in China, from Manila and the United States of America from the Netherlands Indies, and from Chine passing through Hongkong are subject to censorship. These form the bulk of the closed mails passing through Hongkong. All inward correspondence received à découvert excepting Chinese correspondence is censored. All outward Correspondence from Hongkong including Chinese correspondence is cen-

-sored.

At the request of various Administrations such as the Austra- -lian Commonwealth, India and various other Colonies Chinese corres- -pondere arriving in the Colony from such Administrations is specially censored before delivery.

The (transit) closed mails which are subject to close scruti- -ny at the present time are the following:-

A. Shanghai Chinese Pest Office to Canton Chinese Post Office.

B. China (Chinese Post Office) to Netherlands Indies.

C. Between China (Chinese Post Office) and Manila.