WHY AMERICA IS AT WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17860, 5 August 1918, Page 7

WHY AMERICA IS AT WAR.

The sinking of the Lusitania and the unrestricted submarine warfare are only two of the incidents in the series oi plots, intrigues and acts of war of which Germany was guilty when America was still at peace with the autocrat of Europe. Now tho whole inside story of the underlying causes of tho terriblo war into which America has been plunged are to be- seen in Ambassador Gerard's experiences. The First National Exhibitors of America have brought to New Zealand the authorised photo-play version of Ambassador James W. Gerard's " My Four Years in Germany," and they have specially secured the two larg-e theatres—Everybody's and Liberty—for its exhibition in Christchuroh. It is an exact reproduction of Ambassador Gerard's sensational book of the same name, and tells the insido story of tho war, the whole series of startling details known only to tho handful of men who were close enough to the Kaiser to watch the great plot iunfold from the ineide. It exposes the history of Prussia's aims and secret intrigues, and one can understand why America is at war. It is authentic, and was produced tinder the personal supervision of Mr Gerard for the purpose of still further revealing to tho world tho necessity for the defeat of the Prussian military autocracy. The crowds which have witnessed the picture elsewhere have boon unprecedented, and have found thoso hard, cold faots, which are sot down with scrupulous regard for truth, more absorbing, more dramatic and more gripping than the'wildest fiction ever could be. ihe first screening of " My Four Years in Garmany" will commence simultaneously «t Everybody's and Liberty at 2 and 7.45 p.m. on Saturday, August 10, and tho same hours will be observed throughout tho following week. The box plan for both theatres will open at the Bristol on Thursday morning, Aupust 8, find ooa f a may be reserved there without extra charge or by ringing 'phones 8925 or SSBS. Tho managements advise patrons to book their seatß early, as it is almost certain that tho atiendanoe will be unprecedented. At the Albert Hall in London over 50,000 people applied for roser>ed seats.