The Archive · 1935

Canton Cinemas Ban Foreign Films

Hongkong, Mar, 12. In retaliation for the refusal of foreign firms in Canton to pay the business tax, cinema houses in that vity have decided to stop showing foreign films—Central News.

Reuter's state that no boycott ded sion actually was made and that the theatres are still showing foreign Alms as usual, though a request was. sent to the Municipal Government to lodge protest with the United States Consul in Canton, Implicit confidence must be placed in the firm who makes your eyeglasses as the layman has no possibility of checking the work. Unless your Opti-clan can command this trust, you are not getting full value for your expenditure.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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