“MARCH OF TIME”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1940, Page 3

“MARCH OF TIME”

BATTLE FLEETS OF ENGLAND. The current "March of Time." which is to be shown tomorrow night at Iho State Theatre will include piictures of the battle fleets of England.. Althrough there are more fighting ships in the British Navy today than in any other navy in the world. "The March of Time shows England is now spending nearly £200,6(10 a day to build more ships, and al least one new fighting vessel will be launched for the Navy every week during the coming year. Pointing out the fact that Britain's well-schooled jjill’icers and men are equally as important as her ships, “The March of Time” shows how young English bluejackets, reared Io the sea from boyhood, are carefully trained in every phase of seamanship and in the many additional complexities of modern naval warfare. "The March of Time" emphasises the highly important role that Britain's Home Fleet. Mediterranean Fleet, and China Squadron are each playing today to keep open the sea-lanes over which foodstuffs and other necessities vital to the lives of the British people must flow: and in exclusive scenes tfh'e film shows the specialised job each type of vessel must do to rid the seas of mines and German submarine raiders out. Io sink'Allied shipping and thus starve England. Showing fully how the British Navy operates today. March of Time's "Battle Fleets of England” comes at an opportune time when news of the activities of the British Navy is sparse and public interest in its accomplishments high.