THE “DAWN” FILM

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1928, Page 2

THE “DAWN” FILM

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, Alarch 5. The Rev. Galian. who was a British Chaplain at Brussels during war time, and was the last Englishman to see Nurse Cave-11 alive, states: “1 am strongly opposed to the exhibition ot the film ‘Dawn.’ It is most undesirable to ro-awaken war memories, even if accurate and apparently it is not. Nurse Caved did not faint, and no soldier refused to fire. She was not shot by an officer. The execution was carried out in the usual way none of the firers knowing which rifle was loaded with blank or a real cartridge. I regard the hour 1 spent with Nurse Caved the night before her execution as the most sacred in my lifetime. The subject emphatically is not one that should he reproduced on films. Nurse Cared was a brave and noble woman, who deemed it her duty to do as she did. hilt was perfectly aware that she was acting contrary to the laws of war. and running the gravest risks.” CENSOR DEFIED. LONDON. Alarch G. AYilcox announces that despite the censor’s ban “The Dawn” will b© shown in cinemas throughout Britain.