Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash -

"Bad news coming, thought Winston.

And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners