"The most tremendous struggle the world has ever known was vividly brought home in a realistic exhibition of British official war films, under the patronage of Sir Everard Fraser, K.CALG., on the evening of Boxing Day at the Olympic Theatre. They are undoubtedly the best war films ever shown in Shanghai... truthfully scenes of the Battle of Arras; advance of the tanks, symbolically ' known as the "Devil's Own"... Through the courtesy of the Olympic Theatre an invitation was extended to all Sikhs of the S. M. P, and 100 of them attended in a body. The house was packed and exclamations of amazement came from the audience. King George's visit to the Grand Fleet was most impressive"....At intervals between films Mrs, A. C. Godby sang two beautiful selections, entitled "God Send You Back To Me" and "Goodbye" and there were Scottish dances by local residents "Few who attended the entertain-ill forget some of the pictures, such as the British advance, when the shells could be seen breaking in front and behind. the men; or of the terrible scenes of ruin; or the ghastly realities such' as dead men in trenches, piled thick."
At least that was the last of the war Christmases—for twenty-two years at any rate!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.