GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1928, Page 2

GERMAN NEWS.

I Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) ('.WELL FILM. BERLIN, Feb. 8. The Foreign Office has announced that the’ German Ambassadors in London and Brussels, are making efforts to prevent the Cave 11 film being shown in public, on the grounds that such a film “only revives painful memories, and may embitter relations between the countries’’ Sybil Thorndyke figures as the nurse in the Cnvel! film, which is entitled “Dawn." It is pointed out by the German Foreign Office that the film version of Edith Cavell’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. Tagliclie Rundselian says “the film travesties the truth. The attitude of Britain towards European reconciliation leads us to hope that means will be found to prevent the exhibition of the film, which is calculated to whip up the passions of the people.” The German Embassay lias unofficially pointed out the undesiraldeness of the film. The Daily Express understands that it i' unlikely that the Foreign Office will act. The oulv body capable of suppressing the film is the Board of Filin censors. The producers are taking no notice of the protest and say that the film will he shown in Brussels and Berlin, because it nowise offends German susceptibilities.

GERMAN CREDIT. BERLIN. Febuary 8. Tn a dispute over fifteen million sterling credit guaranteed by the German Government to liven up Russia trade, German firms complain of unfair Russian delegation arrived to smooth difficulties over and extend credits, hut ill addition to the tightness of money, there is a further objection that Russia lias not bought beyond the amount of her original credit.