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SUPPRESSING

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“DANGEROUS "IN JAPAN.

SEVERE CENSORSHLE OF NEWS.

WARNINGS CIRCULATED TO THE PRESS.

THE KIDNAPPING OF SANO GAKU.

With regard to the suppression of dangerous thought" there in s very défaite continuity of policy in Japan (saya

writer in the Manchester Guardian), though respecte

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whole subject is taboo All that leaks out is when (as on the forma tion of the new Government) the

prefectural governors and chiefs of police are summoned to Tokyo and Icetured by the Ministers, when they are told that subversive poli. aretical theories are a grave danger against which they must be on their guard.

signs of party policies. General Baron Tanaka, the late Premier,

of imperturbable MED

per sonal courage, bad for years past beca t prominent denouncer of "horrible ideas," and "Lion" Hamaguchi, the present Premier, whose moral courage lifts him above most of his contemporaries, lives in no less fear of the Radical thinker.

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Japanese Authority.

But Japanese authority in China lengths on this occasion, for the seems to have gone to extremer Shanghai Maichi Shimbun. immediately ordered Japanese Consul to suspend pubi-

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cation for fifteen days, its offence GRAND HOTEL DES WAGON, the Fasket and Collection line, ranging being that it had given publicity to the fact of the kidnapping of

ano.

Save for these official warnings, the ordinary Japanese might think that there was no Radical thought work bath ways has never been ac How far extra-territorial rights to speak of; but occasionally a

curately determined. Where for gleam of light penetrates the dark eign Governments maintain the ness. The other day Reuter's agent in Tokyo telegraphed to Shanghai right to try their own subjects they that Sano Gaku, a well-known Com- presumably have the right to ar

Test them, and the question whether: muzist, bad come back to Japan there is any distinction to be ob from the China port and been a served between criminal and poli- rested. When the newspapers artical charges is one that does not rived from Shanghai this piece of. news was clipped front one of them by the Japan Chronicle, a piece of lifting which incurred the dis pleasure of the Home Office, who had all unsold copies, seized, though the utility of such a procedure is beyond comprehension

The Kidnapping, p

appear to have been argued out in

such cases, per

The suspension of the newspaper, however, is an indication of the wide authority that Japanese cou- sulates claim over Japanese sub- jects.

Under Arrest.

Recently the Great Earthquake was celebrated somewhat in Armis- tice Day fashion, and Mr. Hamagu chi made a brief address to the nation by radio. He described how six years ago everybody had been

What is happening in Japan profoundly shocked by the disaster;

In view of what had realheap nobody knows. Communists are but, he went on to say, the popular pend. one might most staget under arrest, but not a word is mind had unfortunately lost some the Reuter, message of chaving been ever published about them. Judg of its seriousness again, and the officially cucocted. Sano Kaku ising from official pronouncements, a distinguished man, a brother of the authorities are determined, not- utmost care had to be taken to pre-Dr. Sano, son-in-law, of the late withstanding failure hitherto, to vent the ill effects of "aubversive Viscount Goto. He has spent some continue the policy of strict extir- idicas such as were incompatible time in Russia, and is supposed to pation. with the Japanese policy.

be the leading mind of the ex- tremists in Japan to-day.

4.

Hushed-up Raid,

?

There is some excitement at the moment over a report that one or two members of the crew of a apanese ship that was in Vladivos tok early in August attended the Some Australian delegates to that Pan-Pacific Labour Conference. conference were turned back from a Japanese port and compelled to re-

It was said that at the time of the raid of April, 1029, he managed Nor was this more generalising to slip through the clutches of the There has been no freedom of utter law and get abroad; and, consider ance on the subject since the greating that he must have known, in Communist, raid, when 1,000 men that things had by no means quiet-turn to China, though they had spite of the silence of the Press, were arrested in the spring of 1928.ed down in Japan, the Beuter transit at all in order. The affair had a little publicity message stating that he had ventur- Although "thought" is supposed when colourless judgments and cd back to Japan was rather aur to be free in universities, every

prising. severe sentences were pronounced

Radical professor has been driven The fact is that Sano, was kidnap-out, and the universities are no from time to time; but of the ped in Shanghai, put on board the more free than the primary schools, autumn raid, by which it was hoped Shanghai-mera, and brought as a while there is an elaborate espion- 3 catch those who had escaped in prisoner to Japan. There are prece-age system within every seat of

dents for such things, of course. learning. the spring, virtually nothing was Only a few weeks before a Korean, published, and of the raid in the prominent both in the independence porters of books and even passen. As for imported "thought," im- spring of this year nothing may morement and in sports, was taken gers by steamer must furnish lists be mentioned.

in broad daylight on the racecourse, of names and authors of their im and also brought over to Japan, ports. It is not surprising that in where he is "undergoing examina- spite of the dangers attendant on tion.

political research interest grows.

Every two or three months a fresh warning is circulated to the Press to keep it from forgetting that the

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day: (December, 19.)

H.K. University Amateur Photo- graphic Club Exhibition, 9 a

H.K, Art Club Annual Ex- hibition, Mercantile Bank Build- ing, 10 am.

Friday,

(December: 90.}

H.K. University Amateur Photo graphic Club Exhibition, 9 a.m.

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30, ..

H.K. Art Club ́· Annual Exhibi- Victoria British School, Annuation," Mercantile Bank Building, 10. prize giving, 19.30 am

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Kowloon Junior School. annual prize giving, 11 am.

Legislative Council Meeting

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Philharmonic Society presents The Geisha" Theatre Royal, 4.30] p.m. and 0.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:

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World Theatre: "The Terror." Star Theatre: "Fortune Hun- ter."

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Boy Scouts Association, Concert and Display, Theatre Royal, 9.13

Peak School, annual prize giving Peak Club, 5.15 p.m.

Philharmonic Society presents The Geisha" Theatro. Royal, 4,20 P., and 9.10 p.m.

Warwick Revue Company: "High Lights," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.

"Qucan's Theatre: "Broadway Melody."

World Theatre: "The Terror." Star Theatre: "Fortune Hun ter."

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