The Road to France (1918)

Tom Whitney well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink is released from the draft because of an old football Injury but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work and largely through Toms efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off Rehabilitated by work the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth