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ON

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Berliners Cheer Soup, On the Screen

WHEN an advertisement for a soup made from beef was thrown on the screen in a Berlin cinema it was greeted by pro- longed clapping and cheering, stated the Berlin correspondent of the Danish newspaper "Ber- linske Tidende" in an article on conditions in Germany.

There is not much meat, he wrote and it is very 'diflleult to get one's ration ench week of just over half a pamd, supplemented by about seven ounces of sausage.

Housewives

are stated to have formed themselves into groups to save time in the queues. Each night 1. they meet decide what they will try to get to eat the following day, and then select one of their number to do the waiting for their combined requirements.

Several hundred

German anti-

aircraft guns have been placed along

the

Saturday,

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December 2, 1939.

SUPPLY COUNCIL'S FIRST MEETING

10

8

The frel meeling of the Supply Connell of the Ministry et Hupply set up to co-ordinate and direct munitions

2.

3.

MR. LESLIE BURGIN, M.F.15. Chairman, Minister of Supply.) LORD WEIR, Director-General of Explosives. LORD WOOLTON, Directar-} General, Equipment and Storea.

6.

tor-General of Finance.

German side of the Dutch. MR. ASHLEY COOPER, Dirce-17.

frontier, according to Germans and Dutchmen who regularly cross to and from Holland.

The Germans lear British alr attacks on the Ruhr, they state.

They also assert that popular

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districts is most depressed, They de- clure that the Gestapo are most active and keep the closest watch on factory workers returning home.

production,

LT. GEN. SIR TAYLOR, Sentor Military Ad-

viser:

MR. P. BENNETT, Director.

MAURICE 8. General of Tanks and Trans-

COL J. J. LLEWELLIN, ALP. 9, Parliamentary Secretary, Minis-

10. try of Supply.

MIR. O. 9. CLEVERLY, Seere-i tary.

BIBLE WITH 850- WORD VOCABULARY

PREPARATION of a new translation of the Bible into Basic

English, which confines itself to 850 words, has not been inter- People reaching Dusle from Gerrupted by the war, and it is still hoped that next year will see the meny say the food conditions la Berlin are lamentable. Brend is of publication of the New Testament. a bad quality.

Hotels

are nearly empty. One great hotel has four guests.

What Is claimed to be a proof that conditions are bad in the Siegfried Line is published in the "Paris Mldi."

Mr. S. C. Roberts, secretary of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press who have been engaged for ten years on the major task, told the "News Chronicle" that

which says the "German wireless stations are appealing to the people to send tubes of aspirin. pills for rheumatism and cough lozenges to men who have been mobilised."

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BIR ANDREW DUNCAN, Chair- man of Committee of Controllers. ENG, VICE ADMIRAL SIN HAROLD BROWN, Director- General of Munitions Production. SIR ARTHUR ROBINSON.

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to overcome copyright difficul- MAIDS' COATS ties, the B.B.C. has at last obtained permission to give a studio performance of a Gilbert the revision of the draft of the New It is understood that in the Basic and Sullivan opera.

The first will be "Trial by Jury" Testament is proceeding, and the Ann draft of the New Testament, text is in preparation.

vocabulary is strictly within the 850 with Derek Oldham in the lead,

The B.B.C. music production unit, "It is being dealt with by a num-words limit. It is claimed that Basic ber of scholnes," he said. Int the English will speedily give foreigners together with the Theatre Orchestra, revision is finished and the final text mastery of simple and concise Eng-will be directed by Gordon McConnel adopted it would be unfair to quote lish. comparisons with the Authorised or Revised versions of the Bible.

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