THE KAISER'S BOAST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17861, 6 August 1918, Page 6

THE KAISER'S BOAST.

GERMANY'S FOND HOPE. There is probably only one man on tho side of tho Allies who really knows what the Kaiser had in his mind when he decided to throw tho might of Germany in one oast against the v»ho>!o resources of Franco ar.d G-roat Britain —that man is Mr J. W. Gerard, win), when war broke out, was United Sta;e3 Ambaashdor at Berlin. Many bulky volumes ul dij.-ioir.atic documents have been issued on both sides, but there Rre very few people' who have the tiino to spare to struggle through thorn— even if they ever come across tb&in. But titer* is a chance for everyone to find out exactly how the war was s'arted. And net only that, thocr is a definite exposition of what Germany expected to gain efter the victory which was so confidently expected. The Prussian military caste never doubted for a moment that the war could bo lost, and the Kaiser expressed in tho mest optimistic words to Mr Gerard his id-wis of futuro events. So confident was he that ho did not hesitate to tell even the American Ambassador that tho United States would bo sorry in a few years time that they had aided the Allies by wrtHyiiuj thorn with munitioriE. On Saturday afternoon' will be shown for tie first time in Christchur-ch — simultaneously at the. Liberty and Everybody's Theatres—the picture entitled "-ay Four Yenm in Germany," founded on Mr Gerard's well-nown book. Every incident in tho trioture porlrays a fact, and the picture has b-wn filmed under the supervision of Mr Gorr-.rd himself. Tho box plan will be open at The Bristol on Thursday.