Nearly four and halt million feot of film was censored by the Shanghat Municipal Police" last year, according to the annual report of the Commissioner.
At the chd of 1990 there were 41 cinema, theatres in Shanghai. these, 26 are located in the Settlement, 11 in the French Concession and four in Chinese controlled territory. During the year the Police censored 457 feature films and 1,211 short Introductory ims and news-eels representing approximately 4,430,729" feet. of film as compared with' 546 feature films, 1,313" short films and newsreels and a total of 5277171 feet of film in 1935, In 06 cases the pictures were only approved after paris to which the police objected had been cut out. 'The Police censors rejected 15 pleures and this decision was accepted 13 instances. Appeals were made regarding the remaining two plctures which were finally passed' by the Board of Film Censors after certain objectionable parts had been cut out. Decisions. in. the case of two other pictures which had been ibmitted for censorship were pendig at the end of the year, The police censors. also examined press books and advertising posters relat ing to films, The national origin and character of the films censored were as fol-ows:
NATIONAL Omtain oF Fuste The Reserve Unit The Reserve Unit turned out to Afteon riot. calls and on eight occasions to the scene of armed robberies. The majority of the calls were of minor, importance. Ju addition, the Unit "stood by" on 18 occasions, carried out 14 riot squad mobile search parties and 405 fixed post search parties, supplied 78 mobile Peeorls, 101 guards to Courls and 15. wuards' at the Police Hospital, Asfistanee was rendered to various Police Districts on 91 occasions. high standard of eMcieney of the Unit was fully maintained, Gomedy and Musleal Comedy"... raved ssteceesteees correct Political and Special Matters Dealing with polities, labour and other special matters, the report Slates that the Municipal Police in ce-operation with the local Chinese Authorities continued their efforts to suppress communist activities in the Settlement, and prosecuted 18 perser and discovered 13 addresses. which Were being used 95 bases of operation, Ten of the accused were extradited to the Chinese Authorities, five received long terms of imprison: ment, two were released on security and one was acquitted. Seizures in connection with the arrests comprised 23,800 copies of 52 different kinds of "Hea" literature, Twelve members of an anti-Japanese terrorist organization known as "The Blood and Soul Corps for the Extermifiation of Traitors," who extorted money from victims under the cloak of patriotism, were arrested and charged with a series of bomb outrages perpetrated in the Settlement and the French Concession between 1032 and 1034, Six of the accused were "sentenced to terms of imprisonment, one was fined and five were acquitted.
Strikes in the Settlement totalled 75 15 against $3 in 1035. The number of employees affected and the number of working days lost were 35,748 an 107,207 respectively as compared with 21,003 and 376,072 in 1935, The outslanding trike of the year was that of 34,460 workers of twenty-tve Japanese cotton mills in Shanghai, this number 18216 are employed in fourteen mills in the Seitlement and the remainder in the Western District (outside Settlement limits) and Pootung. The situation in. all the mills Was practically normal at the end of November.
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