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with the Editor of the defaulting newspaper. The removal of some of the "China's" passengers was well known in Shanghai mi else- -where in the Far East.
(5), Russia's Navy. Three new ships. I enclose cor- -respondence with His Excellency the General Officer Commanding concerning this case. It is to be noted that the extract com- -plained of is an excerpt from the "New York Herald".
(6). Movements of "Peresviet". The correspondence relating to this case forms enclosures Nos. 67713 to this Despatch. The extract complained of is again an excerpt from a Japanese newspaper.
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In view of the fact that this Colony is in close proximity to the neutral countries of China and the Philippines where no censorship exists and that in Japan info ma- -tion of the kind complained of in this correspondence is freely published in the Press it seems to me that in the cases (1), (3), (5) and (6) no really effective remedy can be devised, for the mischief, if any, is already done before publication in this Colony. In case No. 2 the defence of publication weeks previously in the "Times" would in the event of prosecution have probably been successful. Case llo. 4 was an obvious oversight through which nothing not well known and widely discussed in neutral news- -pepers was disclosed. Nevertheless the fact remains that there is no legal sanction for the Press Censorship which here exists and since the enforcement of a hard and fast rule that reference to the movements of allied vessels-of-war must not be made is desired by the Naval Authorities, I submit for your consideration regulations which I propose to make under the Orders in Council
referred to therein.
In existing circumstances these regulations
will
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