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Show IFILM SHOWS KAISER TAKEN BY ENGLISH Fake" War Pictures Are Reported Exhibitod Extensively Throughout Through-out the Far Eaat. .Spe ial Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Sept. 23. A German merchant mer-chant in Bangkok, Slam, writes to a friend here: One of the employees of our firm, a Chinese, Is financially interested In a moving picture theater. A few days ago my Chinese friend Informed me that he had Just received a very Interesting war film. He Invited me and a few other Europeans to a private pri-vate performance and we attended. You may imagine our amazement when the title of the film was thrown on the screen and we read: "The German emperor captured by the English." The three reels consist of a number num-ber of "faked" battle scenes and grewj-ome atrocities, which culminate In the capture of the kaiser and his i staff by English and Italian cavalry and Infantry. Tlie German ruler Is pictured as a bloodthirsty murderer and miserable coward. Ho personally personal-ly dlrectB the murder of women and children by his soldiers and when he ( is surrounded by the British troops j he first tries to hide and then falls on bJS knees to beg for his life. The film has been shown in thousands thou-sands of moving picture hbuses throughout India and also in all of the English colonies In the far west. The public of Bangkok did not see It. however, as. it was barred by the Siamese authorltb-s. |