Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-05 | Page 2 | Japan Censors Foreign Wires

JAPAN CENSORS FOREIGN WIRES SHANGHAI Jan 5 UPI Japanese UP Japanese authorities ann announced today they had taken over all Chinese government government government govern govern- ment functions functions' in the International city of Shanghai and other territory occupied by Japanese armies armies' A final step in Japans Japan's drive for dominance was projected censorship censorship censorship censor censor- ship of ot news dispatches Japanese officials were said to have notified cable cable- companies that Japanese censors censors censors cen cen- sors were moving in to prevent leakage leakage leakage leak leak- age of ot military information to Chi Chi- nese For more than a month dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches had been free from Inter Inter- ference Chinese had maintained some censorship until the fall faU of Shanghai Grave Issue Raised The disclosure that censorship would be imposed came shortly after Japanese officials raised what foreign foreign foreign for for- eign authorities termed a grave issue by threatening action in the International Settlement itself to halt Japanese anti outrages It coincided also with new advances advances advances ad ad- vances by Japanese armies bent on consolidating control of ot five rich north China provinces and the lower low low- er Yangtze river valley The Rising Sun flag was raised at birthplace birthplace- of ot Chinas China's great sage Confucius by detachments advancing advancing advancing ad ad- southward through Shantung Shantung Shantung Shan Shan- tung province Chinese were withdrawing withdrawing withdrawing with with- drawing toward Suchow vital railway railway railway rail rail- way junction in province miles north of Chinese Continue Raids Chinese however kept up the swift-raiding swift tactics which Generalissimo Generalissimo Generalissimo General General- Chiang Shek Kai-Shek has declared declared declared de de- were the mainspring of re re- re Chinese advices from mountainous mountain mountain- ous frigid Shansi province said repeated repeated repeated re re- re- re detachments of the scattered former communist army had forced Japanese to bolster garrisons along the two main railways