STORY OF GALLANT SEAMEN SHOWN AT LIBERTY THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17995, 4 November 1926, Page 7

STORY OF GALLANT SEAMEN SHOWN AT LIBERTY THEATRE.

“ ZEEBRUGGE ” TELLS OF ST GEORGE’S DAY EPIC

The story of the gallant sortie on Zeebrugge, which had such great bearing on the war on the sea in 1318 is told this week at the Liberty Theatre in a picture produced with the co-opera-tion of the British Admiralty Office, From out the Bruges Canal had slunk Germany’s submarines to work their havoc among Allied Merchantmen and passenger ships, and the naval authorities in Britain decided that an attempt would have to be made to block the bottle-neck of the canal behind the big mole and timber breakwaters. It was realised that the venture was fraught with great danger, but the “silent service” has no recognition of the word danger. Two thousand men, all of whom were told tlie nature of the task ahead, were selected from the various commands and given the opportunity of withdrawing, but not one did that. Sir Roger Keyes was placed in charge of the fateful expedition, and the small squadron of obsolete ships of war and small ferries, some concrete-filled and stripped of everything but engines, armament and armour, set out from the shores of England on the night of St George's Day, ISIS. The Liberty Orchestra, under Mr Ernest Jamieson, supplies appropriate music.