“BRITAIN PREPARED.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1594, 5 August 1916, Page 3

“BRITAIN PREPARED.”

TOWN HALL, MONDAY AND TUESDAY. Two methods have been defined I>y which the Allies may win the war. One is.in the phrase of Sir ,lo(m (now Viscount) French, “Munitions and munitions, and more munitions.” The other is by the unceasing and finally irresistible pressure of the British Navy. These views must have been in the minds of the British War 01'tice and Admiralty when they (-hose the sights of war and preparations which they would permit to be filmed for the series ‘“Britain Prepared.” In addition to the army in training, the series shows the munition plants of Vickers, Ltd., which employ 100,(100 men and women, and the pictures of the Navy holding Germany down in the North Sea- are the most “actual” naval pictures ever taken anywhere. Such, at any rale, is (lie verdict of (be London press generally. Mr Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, said in Ids speech at (lie Empire Theatre (where the (inns were lirst unrolled) that he had “done his individual best” to send the photographers where they could get the most real records of (In' Navy on duly in the North-Sea. Practically the only rest fiction placed on die naval lilrns was I hat they must not betray the whereabouts of the squadrons and llolilla. Otherwise the Navy, which so triumphantly rides the sens, can he seen on lilt l screen as vividly as il was by the few pressmen who were allowed lo visit the (traml Fleet. The growing belief that (he (terman licet may risk a light with Britain makes (he war films specially interesting at the present time, and even exciting. They will he screened at the Town Hall on Monday and Tuesday, and they will he interesting to a degree, and especially if there he any truth in (he report that the Berman navy is about to sally from its place* of shelter. The navy lilrns will display exactly in what formidable guise the British Fleet awaits its enemy.