Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still be without he pleasures to be derived from the harmonica had it not been introduced there with a view to providing easily produced martial music in time...
From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations...
...remote Witwaters Rand, South Africa, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police was so stirred by despatches from London that he issued an order banning Dawn, although the film had not yet had its first public showing in England. During the week the London County Council prevented what had been billed as: "Monster First Showing Of Dawn Before 10,000 Representative Citizens At Albert Hall...
Once in jail, Heinrich Langkopf made his great apologia on the basis of the following facts: 1) In 1914 he was established in German East Africa as a planter; 2) Immediately upon the declaration of War, he enlisted, fought, lived to see his whole property confiscated by the Allies; 3) For the past eight years he has been in Berlin with his wife and child, seeking the indemnity which is due him from the German War Indemnification Office, of which Privy Councilor Hugo Bach is chairman; 4) Due to bureaucratic delays, he has received only 9,000 marks, although promised...
...miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...