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Underground Panic Throughout Associated Pictures Corp.
Germany, Travellers Report
LONDON.—The Russian war has produced an underground panic through- out Germany, according to indications in statements by neutrál travellers just out of the Reich. The number of people in Germany who listen in to foreign broadcasts, despite the savagé penalties inflicted in the event of discovery, has increased by hun- dreds of thousands, these-travellers ́state.
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The Moscow Radio, with its order to provide money for the sear effective appeal to the widowsing costs of war. of German soldiers who have fallen on the Western Front, is declared especially responsible
for this.
Millions in the Relch are also get- Hug very uneasy about, their saY- ings. The flight from cash into goods has spread from large industrial cor- porations to the man with a null savings account. Although German business firms have been officially warned against using idle capital or cash resources to speculate on the Stock Exchange in industrial shaves, and such action has been stigmatised as unpatriotle and unworthy of 1 good German Boerse, prices continue
to rise.
Rumours Rife
German employees and workmen remember painfully unfulfilled pro- mises in the flannelal field made by the Nazi leadern, it is stated.
People's Car
Particularly painful is the wem- ory of the scheme of the "peoples' automobile." Under this scheme millions were Induced to subscribe five marks a week for a mass-pro- daced small automobile that was only to go into production and be delivered when subscriptions had supplied the capital necessary for a factory,
When the war came, production. plans were suspended but subscrip- ifons had to continue.
The changed attitude of the Ger- mum workmen is indicated by the surrender Noz! authorities have made over one of the most cherished Naz! economic principles-that of stable, unchanging wages.
German investors' attempts to hold down share prices are not proving very successful, it is indicated, the underlying pressure that comes from a growing apprehensiveness about At the beginning of this war all the future of German currency and overtime earnings were compulso German prospeots in general being rlly retained by the State to be made 100 strong. Rumours are rife available after the war; but now, as throughout Germany that the Nazi tlon, all workmen draw overtime pay a result of the unrest and dissatisfae- government will seize all savings inin fall and it is tax free,
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CASHIERED-Capt. Sir Hor- bort Paul Latham, former M.P., has been found guilty by court martial on 11 charger under the Army Act and son, tenced to bo cashiered and imprisoned for two years.
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Will Remain British
In the only interview she has ever given to a rewɛ- paper, Mrs John Maxwell, 50 per cent. shareholder in an £18,000,000 British film corporation, recently said that she had no intention of permitting American interests to gain control of the film.
Mrs Maxwell is widow of the Mrs Maxwell, a quiet Scotswonian, late Mr John Maxwell, former living in Surrey, said she will take chairman of Associated British active interest in the manage- Pictures Corporation, with its ment of the firm, whatever the re- sult of the present negotiations. 460 cinemas, and its studios at But she still has a personal Interest Elstree and Welwyn.
In its future, especially that of the studion,
There has always been strong bidding by American Interests for "I would like to see the studios at control of the company, but Mr Elstree started again," she said "with Maxwell resisted it in his lifetime, well-made pictures and first-class
and
his
widow is equally determined stars."
"I feel there was never a better time to make pictures than now,
to keep control in British hands.
Against her will (for she does not consider herself a business woman), when every one is so proud of this she has become the centre of one
one of the biggest financial batties in
in the country, revent history of the flim industry.
I know there have been all sorts of rumours," Mrs, Maxwell said "but you can take it as certain that the circuit will remain British."
`Start Up Again.
He "Retired"
"They say 1 was always the one but, you know, all I did was to go who advised mý husband in business,
to trade shows and to studios with him and occasionally talk over scripts. He was a great render of
Mrs Maxwell has a majority in-n stories." terest in the ordinary shares of Mrs Maxwell disclosed that when Associated British. That interest is her husband first came to London 15 now worth about £2,000,000.
years ago he came "to retire.” Half of it has been the subject of Instead, he built up the most negollation between herself and the powerful Alm combine in Britain. British
It company of Warner Bros., Though
controls
nearly 600 Ltd., whose parent
company 15 cinemas, there is no Associated 'American.
British theatre where Mrs Maxwell Negotiations have been going on lives in the country, since Mr Maxwell's death, and Mr When she goes to the pictures, R. G. Simpson, of Edinburgh, has she has to visit a rival theatre four become chairman of the corporation.1 miles away.
Erupting Volcano
Drives
Women From New Guinea
Suffocating pumice dust from the erupting volcano of Matupi, three miles away from Rabaul, New Guinea, is making life intolerable and, as a result, many white women are going back to Australia, or to outlying dis- tricts.
Matupi has been erupting since town to the ground If its buildings June. During this, time there had been of brick and alone Instend have been an average of 50 to 60 of wood." earth tremors a day.
The Minister for External Terri- Although scientists say the volcano taries, Mr McDonald, arrived in is no real danger to the town, the Rabaul from Sydney and had his Administration has prepared evacua- first view of the city from the plane tion plans, and has organised u camp through a cloud of smoke and steam at Aavull four miles away.
rising above Matupl.
Rabaul, shut in by Jungle-covered
mountpins. has only two
roads leading out of it.
narrow
Dust Damages Planes
The plane had to stop overnight
In 1937 volcanic eruptions made at Salamon, because the pumice dust roads impassable, and people had to affects the engine if the machine is be evacuated by sca..
left at Rabaul serodrome all_night. In these eruptions, more than 600) This overnight stop at Salamon natives and two Europeans lost their has been made every week since lives.
Matupi began erupting,
The Assistant New Guinea Vol- canist, Mr C. L. Knight, says that the south at Rabaul after a 24-hour
The plane drops passengers from any big eruption of Matupi would hop from Salamoa. It picks up give enough warning for Rabaul to southbound passengers
mail be evacuated safely.
without waiting at Rabaul longer
He says there is no possibility of than is necessary.
an eruption under the town itself.
No Severe Shocks
and
Soon after his arrival Mr Mc- Donald was taken by the Adminis
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Along the wind track from the trator, Sir Walter. McNicoll, to the mountain to the town sulphurle Malupi crater, gases have burnt a broad belt of Mr McDonald climbed half a mile tropical vegetation into dry grass up a steep slope over the grey ash and skeleton trees.
of the barren, smoking mountain. Few of the earth tremors in the Great black rocks, newly split, past few weeks have been severe bad gashed holes in the dirt. enough to be felt in Rabaul, but Around the base of the mountain some have shaken buildings.
steam rose from the porous earth, Experts say that a tremor felt on and from between the rocks, in hot January 14 would have lovelled the swirls.
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