NURSE CAVELL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 113, 10 February 1928, Page 9

NURSE CAVELL

GERMAN OBJECTION TO BRITISH FILM VERSION OF EXECUTION DECLARED UNTRUE (Rec. February 9, 8.20 p.in.) London, February 8. Miss Sybil Thorndyke figures as the Nurse in the Cavell film, which is entitled “Dawn.” It is pointed out by the German Foreign Office that the film version of Nurse Covell’s execution differs from the German official account, which contains nothing about a German officer having shot the nurse, or about a German soldier in the execution squad having refused to obey the order to fire. The “Taglische Rundschau” says: “The film travesties the truth. The attitude of Britain towards a European reconciliation leads us to hope that means will be found to prevent the exhibition of a film calculated to whip up the passions of the people.” The German Embassy has unofficially pointed out the undesirableness of the film. The “Dailv Express” understands that it is unlikelv that the Foreign Office will act. The only body capable of suppressing the film is the Board of Film Censors. The producers are taking no notice of the protest, and say the film will be shown in Brussels and Berlin, because it in nowise offends German susceptibilities. Berlin, Februarv 8

The Foreign Office announces that the German Ambassadors in London and Brussels are making efforts to prevent the Cavell firm being shown in public, on the grounds that such a film “only revives painful memories and may embitter the relations between the countries.”—A.l'.A. and "Sun.”