JAPANESE CENSOR HOW IN CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 7

JAPANESE CENSOR HOW IN CONTROL.

cable wireless.

Shanghai Messages Subject

To Alteration.

CHINESE STAFF MOVES OUT.

United Press Association.—Copyright,

(Received 10 a.m.) LON'DON, January 6. The Japanese Embassy spokesman a t Shanghai says that censorship of cables and wireless is operating. Press correspondents will not be informed of alterations made in their dispatches. The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" says the employees of the Chinese radio administration have walked out under orders from the Chinese Government, and the Japanese have taken over full control of the service, which is being operated by Japanese. There is no censorship on radio messages, but Japanese censors have arrived at the cable offices. They have been drawn from the Department of Communications, the Army and the Communications Section of the Japanese Embassy. They have been allotted rooms adjoining the instrument rooms.

The Chinese Foreign Office has sent identical memoranda to the British, French and American Governments requesting them to take prompt measures to prevent the enforcement of the Shanghai Municipal Council's recent proclamation giving their police emergency powers.

OMINOUS WARNINGS

Japan's Financial Condition

Weakening.

CONFIDENCE THREATENED

LONDON, January 6,

The Tokyo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says ominous warnings of Japan's financial condition are being sounded by Japanese business men and financiers. The most striking of these is by Mr. Masanao Kobayashi, president of the Tokyo Electric Light Company, one of the most powerful men in Japan's financial and industrial world.

Mr. Kobayashi says the Government seems to think it can mobilise and distribute national bonds and so stabilise the national finance, but confidence is even more important. He fews this is threatened in Japan.

He believes the Government will have difficulty in disposing of its proposed bond issues before March 31. He says the stock market so far has failed to reflect the war boom. "This is because Japan's financial circles have not enough confidence in the Finance Ministry," says Mr. Kobayashi. "Even a child knows that adjustment of the international balance is an essential factor in maintaining Japan's financial stability.''

BOYCOTT ENGLISH.

Japanese Students Refuse to

Attend Classes.

expel all foreigners,

LONDON", January 6,

The Tokyo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph" says university students are refusing to attend classes !n English. They ask contemptuously: What is the use of studying a dying language?" They assert that all foreigners soon will be expelled from the country.

This belief in the expulsion of foreigners is shared by foreign tracters, but H denied by the Government.

CONSUL OFFENDS.

JAPANESE PROTESTING.

(Received 2 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 6. The Japanese Legation is preparing a protest against the Chinese Consul, Mr. hang Lo-when's, statement at a Service ub luncheon advising Canada to build J fleet and fortify her coast against

r ' Chang, predicting a Sino-Soviet Pact that will cause wailing to Japan, sated that Canada and the United ates had better say nothing then as e y say nothing now. Canada is no tfiore safe through the Monroe Doctrine an China is under the Kellogg Pact, h e declared.

9 ARMY GREETINGS.

BRITISH TO JAPANESE,

LONDON, January 6. According to a Tokyo dispatch the m?rl ei ews Agency says the British attache, Major-General Piggott, en i. " le a P ane se Minister of War to to the Emperor, who is a fieldy'p al of the British Array, New n a . r to the Japanese Army H the officers and men of the r 'tish Army. a T' le British Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir ®rt Craigie, called on the Japanese oieign Minister, Mr. Hirota. The s °n has not been divulged.

ALL LOANS MET.

CHINESE GOVERNMENT PAYS.

(By Telegraph.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A cablegram received from Hankow Chinese Consul states: "Although •■-''gn trade has been affected by the all foreign loans secured by Cusfevenue ha\e been fully met in the "Vial year for 1937."