IMPERIAL CLUB

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1920, Page 3

IMPERIAL CLUB

1 • this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27.

Sir Thos. Mackenzie interviewed regarding the great Imperial Club which the Prince of Wales said yesterday he was very keen about ,savs it would cost a million or more. At present the High Commissioners and Agents General try to do their best for Oversea visitors, but their power and facilities are limited. The Colonial and Imperial Institutes and other organisations are doing splendid work, but the Club is wanted for the reception and accommodation of Overseas folk, where they eoulcj meet each other and English men and women interested in Imperial affairs, and where they would be able to offer hospitality to their friends. The Club should give simple, inexpensive reception for those it was desirable to establish connections with. It would be a, central institution where Overseas visitors and British traders cf>uld readily pomp togpthpr.

ANOTHER GERMAN NOTE. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 27

A German note received, again requests the Allies to forego the demand for the surrender of war criminals, OR the ground that the surrender of many officials would produce internal, economic and political difficulties. The Note adds that Germany is prepared lierseir to try the guilty persons, and suggests that the Allies appoint such a German tribunal. It is understood the . Allied ,-eplv will reject the Note, pointing out that the surrender is laid down in the Teace Treaty, and must be implicitly complied with.

PERFIDIOUS GERMANS,

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 27. The Council of Ambassadors considered the experts reports upon the German warships handed over, as reparation for / the Seapa Flpw sinkings. The Germans displayed their habitual cunning. Um ships were only bare hulls Tho engines had been removed and all armaments, so that the vessels were valueless as fighting units. French delegates on tho Council demand that the Germans bo taught a sharp lesson for thplr Ifvtosh PrtHv-

tapanese REPULSE bolsheviks,

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 28. An official communique states it is reported the the Bolshevik attacks xrt Tfemric region. All «« rcpnWL The Japaneso were content to act on the defensive.

i SERGEANT SHOT AT. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 27. . Another attempt to assassinate Sergeant Sullivan while travelling from Cork to Tralee for the purpose of giving evidence against eleven men charged in connection with a former attack. Three sliots were fired in the train. Sullivan escaped but a detective was injured by a shattered window'. CONTROLLING GERMAN FILMS. LONDON, Jan. 27. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states that one of the earliest Government measures after the revolution was the abolition of film censorship. It had unfortunate results in the cinema world owing to the extraordinary vogue of so-called ungs” films, of which ostensibly the purpose was tq warn German youths against eratic tendencies. Since uie removal of the censorship, the picture palaces have been flooded with masked obscenities, which the newspapers described as a set of mud. The public agitation is so great that a movement against the whole film industry is threatened, and Government is introducing a universal cinema censorship, enabling the authorities to refuse to license any film calculated To excite base instinct. The judges will include as officials, lending artists and writers and' also men and women of experience in training the young. The cinema manufacturers say that the hill will kill the industry, and they are thoroughly organised for a fight. The biggest combination, known as the Ufa Company, has a capital of sixty million marks, and owns seven factories and fifty picture palaces.