Sudden alarm was caused the passengers sitting quietly in the darkened first class lounge of the N.Y.K. inv. /Tatsuta Maru when the vessel was preaching Shanghai on June 17, sorbed in the. entertainment of Banjo on My Knee" being screened by the ship's projector, the passengers were suddenly startied by seeing flames leaping up from the machine the back of the room. Much com= motion followed as fire extinguishers ere turned on the blaze and people about excitedly. But the fre extinguishers had the fire out. ina short time, Keeping the to "Banjo on My Knee, completely destroyed, The blaze is believed to have been [caused by faulty electric wiring.
Desrize the fact that the picture "The New Earth" is no longer shown in Shanghai, the Chinese Film Producers Association, at a meeting on June 14, resolved to tend a letter to the' local German Cansul-General, asking him to state whether the German "authorities have ap-Proved of this picture, and also to send a loiter to the Seitiement Film Consership Board, asking whether a permit had been lisued for the show= ing of the picture in the Settlement with numbers of other Germans, was dismissed from. his" post. "He" was thout a Job for some. considerable lime. and_ when German eitizns. China were returning to Weir native land in 1910 to be repatriated, he wes Dreparingto.'x0° with them." A few days before he was to embark, how: ever, he received a. communication from, the 'Chinese 'Government. ex: tempting him from Tepatriation, ito Wwas one of the few 'Germans' who Femained in China atter the war, From 1019 to 19%, Mr. Clouth was really" "down and out," and lived. 4 house in Chapel. "Not having been trained for another profession, Maerat a lots how to exist out ere, the Ting: Chi University when Gore fe was given a temporary" post
man professors on the stall returned Frame' for Fepatriation, but it was of unt 932" that he was permanently established "once again. He wes "picked up" on Nanking Road by ne director of a local insurance compan, who fered to teach him the insur: ance business" He. Inter" staried is Ship with Mf Hleking. who was pre:
insurance business in partner
iously a colleague of his in business Lite' was gay. in the Customs. Ser. vice in the folden days of 40° years ao, "The" sta lived' in palatal esses, and" there was a full dress alf ractcally every night. There Nas tie smuggling in' those da The import duty was then only five er cent, and it was not worth risk {ng Confiscation and a fine to evade such a. moderato tax. te Clouth travetiea to China on the same best an architect by the name of Cars {ee who gave Me name to a Shang. built by him. teeth 'Personal friends of Mr. Clouth gave 1 reception for him at the German Garden Club" on "June 20."'when received their" congratulations on his ong career in this' county,
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