The Archive · 1938

Of Payment Arranged

Tokyo, June 8.

Japan's ardent f "goers, yearning for the sight of the latest American flickers," today hailed the Government's decision to permit conditionally the importation of 200 of Hollywood's latest masterpieces.

The permission, which ends a nine-month "famine," was granted on the condition that the producers deposit Y.2,000,000, including royalties payable to Hollywood's studios, at the San Francisco branch of the Yoko-bema Specie Bank. The money is to remain at the Bank for three years and will draw no interest.—Domei.

Tne Reich's population today totals 3,144,233, the "Neues Volk" review, claims in an article estimating the country's populace. This estimate is Of especial interest now because the official census which was due on May

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