NURSE CAVELL FILM

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 9

NURSE CAVELL FILM

FIERCE CONTROVERSY OVER BAN CLEMENCEAU ON ANGLOGERMAN RELATIONS (Rec. February 24, 7.30 p.m.) London, February 23. The actual act of banning the film “The Dawn”' is responsible for a fierce controversy. A notable contributor, Professor J. H. Morgan, in a letter to the “Evening Standard,” says: “The tone of Sir Austen Chamberlain’s letter leaves a chilly impression that he regards Nurse Cavell’s execution as a kind of unfortunate accident, no blame being attachable to anvbodv. I suggest to Sir Austen Cli.amberlain'that a little gesture on the other side would do more to improve AngloGerman relations than all his lullabies namelv, secure a public admission from the German Government that it regrets its predecessors* treatment of Nurse Cavell.” M. Clemenceau sent a message to the “Evening Standard,” saving: “I cannot see whv this or anv other film dealing with actual facts of the war should be banned. If Anglo-German relations are so delicate that a film based on the reality of facts can strain them they are not based on sincerity.” The whole question of the censorship is expected to be raised in the House of Commons. WITHDRAWAL OF OTHER FILM j London, February 23 The film “Mare Nostrum” has been withdrawn also in deference to German opinion. This has added fresh fuel to the fire over the film “Dawn” controversy. Furthermore, it is recalled that a number of scenes in the film “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” were deleted when the film was first shown in America, following representations o f the German Consul-Gen-eral at Washington. The “Daily Mail” describes this as n knuckling tinder to Germany, and pertinently asks why the Board of Censors has just passed the German film “The World War Through German Spectacles,” featuring Big Bertha shelling Paris. It says that Sir Austen Chamberlain lias placed the . Government in an untenable position over “Dawn.”—Sydney “Sun” Cable.