MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5003, 18 October 1918, Page 2

MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY.

AMBASSADOR GE RAR D’ S FAMOUS WORK. The picture adaptation of Ambassador J. W. Gerard’s famous book "My Four Years in Germany,” will be screened for the first time in Gisborne at the Opera House next week, commencing on Tuesday, with a matinee. Referring to the picture the New Zealand Times on July 22. wrote as follows:—"In this picture one is made to realise with amazing clearness and force the treacherous atmosphere of German diplomatic circles and the pageantry, the sycophancy, the false glitter, and the lurking madness of the Kaiser’s court. Sir Edward Grey’s untiring efforts to avert war, very ably seconded by Mr Gerard himself, arc fully demonstrated. The blood-guiltiness of the Kaiser and his egregious entourge is very clearly sheeted■ home; and the exposures of the atrocities of the prison camps at Wittenburg and elsewhere; of the absolutely unprovoked violation of Belgian neutrality, and the orgies of destruction, rapine and •slaughter that accompanied it, of the deportations and enslavement of the civil population of northern France and of Belgium, and of tlic submarine piracy, are powerful in the extreme. Consideration of space forbids more than this bare indication of the wide scope and vivid interest of the film. To see it is a liberal education so keen is the realisation afforded of the great underlying facts and issues of this great world war, so forcibly and. insistently does Ambassador Gerard hammer home the necessity for utterly smashing _ the German war machine, and securing a victorious, _ a worthy and a lasting peace.” ‘ ' . The box plan for' the season, which is limited to five nights and. three matinees is at Miller’s Corner.