THE “DAWN” FILM

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 March 1928, Page 5

THE “DAWN” FILM

A CHAPLAIN’S OPINION. SCENES NOT ACCURATE. phehr ««snc't copvri'mii LONDON, March 5. The Rev. Air Gahan, who was British chaplain at Brussels during the war time and xvas the last Englishman to see Nurse Cavell alive, states that .he is strongly opposed to the exhibition of the film “Dawn.” “It is most undesirable,” he says, “to re-awalcen war memories even if they are accurate, and apparently the film is not. Nurse Cavell did not faint. No soldier refused to fire. She iva.s not shot by an officer. The exe- («: in was carried out in the usual way, none of the fliers knowing w.i.rii vitliv. were loaded with blank or re-a cartridges. “I regard the hour I spent with Nurse Cavell the night before her execution as the most sacred in my lifetime,” conti.-u-.fs the chaplain. “The cubjeet emphatically is not one lOat should be reproduced in the films. Nur e e Cavell was a brave, noble woman who deemed it her duty to do as she did, but who was perfectly aware that she was acting contrary to the laws of Avar and Avas running the gravest risks.” The producer of the film, Mr Wilcox, announces that despite the censors ban. the “Dawn” Avill be shoAvn in cinemas throughout Bri-nen.