Peking, Jan, 2.
The motion-picture story the life of the "Old Buddha," the Empress-Dowager Tsu Hai, has been banned by Peking officials, because it "tends to exerci generating influence on t of the public and constitutes a gr reflection on the national dignity of China". The story was filmed in Peking last yerly by the Nanyang Ku, dun Motion Picture Company, 4 Chinese concern, by special per-on of the local officials at that time. The actress who portrayed the rule of the Empress-Dowager was shown in the Forbidden City where the real Empress lived and ruled for 40 years.
Impartial observers who viewed the private showing of the film agreed that it had been well done, and was of considerable historic and romantic interest, but members the Kuomintang and Bureaux of Social Welfare and Public Safety, who were asked "to pass upon the: picture, were unanimous in saying. that it should not be shown in China. The attitude of the censors. was: that this is not the time to recall Imperialist days in China, when the " kow-tow" was a dograd: ing feature of court life, and pomp and ceremony were a first consider: tion, Since those days, the censors declared, China has passed throu, a revolutionary stage, and it is proper to remind the people of stage in their development which not far in the past.
The company will suffer a heavy loss if the censors remain firm in thei, decision—United Press.
Moxpen, qv Lu Jan.:—General Chun-lin, former police chief of Harbin, has been appointed Director of the Mukden arsenal—Reuter.
Recutatioxs have been framed by the Ministry of War governing the granting of pensions to the families of Chinese soldiers who lost their lives for the cause of revolution before the anti-northern expedition started in Kuangtung Shiderana, Foreign Minister, is expected to explain Japan's attitude course of his address before the Imperial Diet on January 21, whea the Diet resumes' session—Rengo.
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