British Commonwealth of Nations: Note

At Sheffield, a film depicting the daily life of Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn commenced to unreel at the principal cinema theatre.

"Take it off!" roared a bull-necked Briton.

"A bas Guillaume l'assassinateur!" [Down with Wilhelm, instigator of assassins!] shrieked a Frenchwoman.

The film was taken off amid pandemonium and replaced by a U. S. feature picture.

At London a cinema theatre manager received a note "with a bullet hole through it," reading: "If you put Kaiser Bill on your screen tonight I'll come and shoot him and the screen...

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