29 JUNE 1934, Page 6

This week's over-statement : " The banning of this journal

(Oriental Affairs), together with the censorship of foreign Press telegrams, in which comment on current affairs is deleted, the sense of messages is altered, and statements of fact are suppressed, is regarded as calcu- lated to arouse the suspicion that the Government wishes to conceal disagreeable truths."—The Times Shanghai Correspondent: X. Y. Z.