Chaos in Trade as Result of Struggle Berlin, July 22.
Chaos has been created in firm circles throughout Germany by the sudden and complete cessation of the exhibition of sound films whereby some of the leading cinema houses have been forced to close their doors whilst others attempt to show the films as mute films. This action is the climax of a long bitter struggle over patent ights between the Western Elec-trio Ca. of Ameria and German electric firms, Both.sides have attacked each other with injunctions and counter-injunctions and appeals till the Gevman firms attained a final injuetion against the use of the Western Electric Co.'s apparatus on the ground that it constitutes an infringement of German patents. The Americans retaliate by refusing to permit the use of German patented apparatus, even going to the length of stopping the exhibition with them of American-made films.—
Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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