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HOW CHINESE NEWSPAPERS ARE

CENSORED.

INTERESTING DISCLOSURES IN COURT.

CENSOR'S LIVELY DUEL WITH DEFENDING SOLICITOR.

Interesting statements were made in Court yesterday as to method by which local vernacular newspapers are censored. It was revealed that only two men are engaged on the work and that the task of reading through the numersus articles submitted took them each two hours a day.

Instances were cited of particular articles being rejected in the case of one paper and passed for another. Mr. M. K. Lo for the defendant newspaper complained that articles submitted, were at the mercy of those men who had no guiding principle but act ed on whims and caprices.

Criticisms were also passed by the censor upon editors of local Chinese newspapers. He declared that they would submit a long galley proof with an article which only occupied half the space, and once the article was passed and had been initial- ed by the censor, other matter would be printed in the blank space giving it the appearance of having been censored. Later he admitted that after these proceedings' started any black space on the proof was ruled through.

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These statements were made before Lt.-Col. F. Eaves yester- day at the Central Magistracy when the Secretary for Chinese Affairs summoned the printers and publisher of the Hong Kong Shun Po (The Hong Kong Morning Post) for publishing two ar- ticles on May 9th and 10th without having submitted them to the censor. Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the defendants and Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy was for the 8.C.A.

THE CASE OUTLINED. By mutual consent the. monees were taken together, and in outlining his ease, Mr. Fitzroy said that the case was brought under the Emergency Ordinance of They were not concerned why the ruler and regulations governing the censorship of the Chinese press were passed, but once they were made they continued to be in force until repealed by the Governor-in-Council. The penalty, he said, ́cases like the present. one was by summary conviction. and, the penalty was a fine not ex- ceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding one year.

Continuing, Mr. Fitzroy describ- ed the working method of the. Two men, Tam Pak. Chuen and Eau Sheuk Chong, were employed to read through all the articles submitted by the papers, and they worked in shifta

censors.

One:

man would start duty at 6 to 8 p.m. and the other would come oni 8 to 10 p.m. Both men were" on duty on May 8th and May 9th, and they would say that the articles complained. of were not passed by them. They had not seen. the articles until they were published...

The censors, Mr. Fitzroy said, initialled every article they passed! for publication and all articles re- jected would be struck out with blue or red pencil.⠀

The defendants in this case were Chan Chik Yan, proprietor, and publisher, and Chun Fat Company, printers. Where the printers were concerned, Mr. Fitzroy said, they were a company and that his Wor- ship could not send a company to gaol but could only impose & fine. His Worship asked Mr. Fitzroy if he had ascertained who were the partners in the company because if he found, them guilty he would have to impose a fine on each of the partners. Mr. Fitzroy replied that he did not know.

"WARNING TO OUR

· CHINESE.": Evidence was then taken from Lau Bheuk Chong, one of the Chinese censors. He said that he was on duty on both the days men tioned in the charge and the articles published by the Shun Bo

were not submitted to him for ap- proval. The first offending article read:

DESTROYING CHINA.

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[BY KUNG TO JUSTICE),

*** Wearing of Japanese silk will cause the destruction of our country.

Wearing of Japanese cotton eloth will cause the destruction af our country.

The using of Japanese pores-- lain will cause the destruction of our country.

The eating of Japanese sen delicacies will cause the destruc- tion of our country.

Wearing Japanese ornamenta will cause the destruction of our, country.

Buying Japanese toys will cause the destruction; "of our country.

Travelling by Japanese steam- ers will cause the destruction of our country.

All of us who wish to maintain our nationality must refrain from using: Japanese goods. If your enthusiasm is going to last only five minutes you might as well prepare to become a slave

fost country." "DO NOT DESPÍSE US.”, The official translation of the second article was

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"All our countrymen. Arise in a body and be active..

Urge the Japanese to come to their senses and make them respect us. The Japanese have challenged us and cruelly mur dered, our Chinese officials and people.

Beunanimousin severing economic relations with Japan." Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, wit ness said that he always put his initial at the end of each article passed: and those that were reject- ed, he marked through with a red Mr. Lo? Each page would then bear either your initials erasures 1 von A

or blue pencil.get

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His Worship: That is if he were doing his censoring properlyngh

Mr.: Lo:- Quite, bût I did not mean to say that witness was not doing his duty properly.

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.

Mr. Lo then questioned witness as to whether he had used & blue pencil or a red one. Witnesa ald he used both and Chinese ink some times when articles ware brought to his residence for approval.

Mr. Lo: Do you use red for ap proval and blue for rejection -It does not depend on what coloured pencil use. It depends on ry

initial only.

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Lo: You just said that you did not see the slogans and article mentioned. I want you now to have a good look and tell me whe ther you would have passed them had they been submitted to you? -No, I have had special instrue tions from the Government on or about May 7th.

Mr. Lo: If you had received no special instructions, would you pass it would pass anything which was not detrimental to the Colouy.

His Worship: (To Mr. Williams, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs) Is he the sole arbiter of this. If he is not quite sure, does he not consult. higher officials1

Witness replied that he usually exercised his own discretion but sometimes, when he was in doubt, he consulted with the B.CIA

Mr. Lo: Would you as a man- a respectable citizen of Hong Kong -pass that article in the ordinary course of events 1—I would refer the matter to the S.C.A

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It is interesting to note that gentlemen of various nationalities including British, Portuguese, Chi- | nese and Japanese, etc., were in- vited. As is usual in such functions Indians were conspicuous by their absence. While apparently no un- favourible effect is created by such discrimination yet really this lack | of discretion is keenly felt. Parti-

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SKYLARKING.

NOT KNOWN IN HONG.. KONG.

————————| TEASING OF CHINESE GIRLS

ALLEGED.

was done after this action had com. menced.

Mr. Lo: Do you agree that many papers in Hong Kong have written leaders and other articles urging a Japanese boycott and that these articles were zubmitted in the usual way and passed for publication 1 Yes.

THE MIND OF CENSOR

GUARDSMAN BOUND OVER

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A soldier's" skylarking"

Cause of his appearing the before the Kowloon magistrate yesterday. He was warned not to indulge in a similar form of pass- time again as it was "not known in Hong Kong,"

Guardsman John Duncan, of the 2nd Butt. Scots Guards'' was, ac- cused of assaulting a Chinese at Laichikok on May 13th. It was alleged that complainant with three

Mr. Lo then explained to the Court that the Shun o published ita first article against Japan os May 6th after the editor had as- Mr. Lo: It may be rather exag oertained from the censors that gorated, that wearing of Japanese there would not be any objection ailka will destroy the country, but to such articles. On May 11th all what is your objection to it↑ The the editors of Chinese newspapers Hong Kong Government does not were sent for, by the S.C.A. and like that kind of propagands. The warned,ART Government's orders were to sup press anything urging a Japanese at this article published by the The girls were walking in front

Mr. Lo:. Now I want you to look boycott.

Wah The Fat Po on May 8th. It ONLY HERE AS A WITNESS. actually advocated a war between Witness then heatedly exclaimed China and Japan-Yes, but they that it was not he who brought did not ask for a boycott.

It was the His Worship: But that is put to Court. doing of the S.C.A. and that he ting it, stronger? Yes, bat a war was only asked to give evidence between China, and Japan is out. Mr. Lo, to the Court Inter side of the Colony and a boycott

is a domestic affair. preter: Will you tell him with my

this case

best compliments that we all know Mr. Lo Oh, the psychology of that, and that if he were to answer these

wonderful

You

Censors:

men and seven girt frienda were walking toward the bus station.

and when nearing the bamboo stopa leading up to the reclamation, they saw the defendant and six other soldiers standing on the steps. The soldiers teased the girls," who then quickened their pace but the men chased one of the girls.

Complainant then went forward and told the soldiers to consé. De- fendant without saying a word struck the complainant in the face. my questions more. lucidly we would have passed an article ad- A friend came up and told the should get on better.

vocating war, but would reject a complainant not to fight and to put Mr. Lo (to witness) May I take peaceful boycott T-Bo long as they up his hands to show the soldiers you back to the slogane. You have concerned. Hong Kong they must that he had chucked in the no personal objection to them, but be rejected.

Complainant did so and went to just because they had reference to

Mr. Le: Are you prepared to the Police Station to make his

several

were

sponge."

a Boycott against Japan, they admit that there were therefore against Government articles published in Hong Kong report orders-My duty is to carry out urging an economic boycott ? Yes, orders and not to express my own but none concerned Hong Kong opinion. I wish to make it quite when they talk of boycott in out clear that I am here to-day to give ports we do not mind. evidence to the effect that the slogans and article were not pass

ed by me.

A "TIN GOD 1"

Mr. Lo: Supposing a paragraph, Mr. Lo: As a censor you acted had been censored by you, and you as a tin god, acting on your own had passed it could that pars and according to your caprices. graph be published for three days You have no, guiding principle and without having to be submitted to you never referred to the B.C.A.1 Mr. Lo: You have no guiding you again Yes, if there was no alteration made...

principle. It was all a question of your liver and you do not net on any principle. Now here is an

SHARP PRACTICE ALLEGED,

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*Defendant's Version. Defendant story was that he and three other soldiere were going up the steps and were "having s bit of a lark." There were some Chinese girls on the steps at the time and they all stood there watch. ing the bathers on the beach. A Chinese came up and accused de fendant of having annoyed the girls while they were bathing. Defendant did not then, know what✅ the man was saying but he went off and came back with another man. They again accused witness and his Defendant got annoyed and told the two Chineas to dear of Com plainant took off his jacket and struck at witness. Ho (defendant)

retaliated and gave complainant s sound thrashing,

Mr. Lo then produced a galley issue of Wah Kong Po. You see end of annoying the girls. proof which had been returned by an open letter by the "Association the censor and pointed out to wit of all Classes of people in Kwang- ness that it was initialed by one tung.? The Shun Po wanted to of the censors. It contained the publish, this letter and it was re.' article complained of. Witness jected and next day the fah Kung suggested that the galley was hubo was allowed to publish it! mitted with the first paragraph That matter was dealt with, by, my which had nothing to do with the colleagues offensive article. That paragraph Mr. Lo: Hers in another. article turned to the Shun Po, the offen-It is called "Universal Indigna was passed and when it was republished by the Tai Kong Po sive article was

inserted in the tion. The subject.as about the blank space.

This story was corroborated by two other guardemen John Sinel da and Thomas Pedder, l

His Worship said that it was had alarmed the girls and that the quite clear, that the "skylarking" complainant had remonstrated. Mr. Lo: Do you agree that as Japanese sending troops to Shan His complaints were not heeded

tung. When we submit this article a matter of practice; a newspaper to you; you struck out the rat and the complainant then got would not submit articles about four characters, and then you al-noyed and hi defendant, who the weather or other topics which lowed the same characters to stand naturally retaliated and complain they know would not be objection in the ease of the Tai Esong Puhe worst of it.

Hy beund both parties over in tiss ablet-That only applies to adver Would you not call this capricious arm of as to keep the pesce for tisements.

Mr. Lo: I put it to you that and, unfair 11 do not call that six months and warned, the defends

when a document is sent to you for censoring, you would rule out all blank spaces 1 Yes, but this (Continued on next Voluinn),

action capricious, f

The case was at this stage ad journed until next Thursday after

noon.

ant not to indulgem skylarking in future as that form of past time neither was known nor apprecia in the Colony, Was