The Japanese officials would cut any reports and commentaries they did not like, and the newspaper would deliberately leave the cut sections blank to let their Taiwanese compatriots realize the lack of free speech under foreign rule, and arouse their sense of hatred for the common enemy.
日本官員把他們不中意的新聞和評論刮掉，報社故意不補版面，就讓這些開天窗的部分印出東一塊黑、西一塊黑的記號，讓台灣同胞瞭解異族統治下言論的不自由，激發同仇敵愾的情緒。