AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

M’dTKAI.IAN AND N.£. CABLE ASSOCIATION FIRST RELIEF TRAIN. w NEW YORK, Nov 75 The damaged Chilian longitudinal railway lias been repaired and * we first telief train lias started northwards. Martial law was declared at Yallenar, and Oopiapo owing to looting by convicts. who escaped when the prisons orumbled. AMERICAN FILMS. TOKIO, Nov. 13. The Japanese authorities who have been combating American kinemas for a considerable period, have decided to take drastic censoring action against these photoplays, which they claim are the worst produced in the United States and unfit to exhibit anywhere. It was at first hoped that by the imposition of an imperial tax of thirty yen on a thousand feet of film importations would bo checked, but the contrary has occurred. American films are successfully competing against 'ho Japanese product. The Osaka municipality and various other prefectures have decided to prohibit. all films that include love-mak-ing, shooting, derogation of police, thievery, revolution and anti-govern-mental and anti-social movements. American distributing agents declare that it will mean that few subjects nowtreated by scenario writers can be used for film consumption here.