"DICTATOR."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 17

"DICTATOR."

CHEERS FOR NAPOLEON. INCIDENT AT CINEMA. NO STRONG MAN APPEARS. (BY CABLF.—PRESS ASSOCIATION"—COPYRIGHT.) AXD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December l8??i, 7.15 pun.) LONDON. December 17. The 'Daily Express" Paris correspondent states that the production of the film "Madam Gene" occasioned' a remarkable incident, suggest; ing the trend of public opinion in France. When the figure of the Little Corporal was thrown on the screen, the entire audiience was electrified and rose as one man, cheering and shouting ''Dictate l>ietator, Long Live Napoleon." The ovation lasted several minutes. Publicists, however, though they admit that a Dictator would have ro difficultv in seizing power, state, that a, strong man has not yet appeared. TAX DODGING. (AUSTRALIAN AND X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 18th, 7.13 p.m.) PARIS, December 17. M. Herriot, at a. meeting of Radical Socialists to-day, quoted striking sfa l tistics showing tax dodging. He stated that, whereas 570,000 owned private motor-cars, only 257,717 persons in France paid income-tax on incomes above thirty thousand francs. M. Herriot added that the possession of a car thus means an income of £230. ■ VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.' (REUTER's TELEGRAMS.) (Received December 19th, 8.45 p.m.) PARIS, December 18. The Senate, following a debate on the position in Syria, carried a vote of confidence in the Government.