INCREASED SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8

INCREASED SERVICE

8.8.C. WAR BROADCASTS

RUGBY, February 17

The development of British broadcasting during the war was described in the House of Commons on a vote of £1,300,000 to the 8.8.C.. in addition to £5,600,000 already voted.

The number of languages used increased from ten in 1939 to forty-one by the end of 1941. Hours of overseas news bulletins have risen from 44 a week to 231. The corporation now broadcasts 97 overseas news bulletins daily:

There is a mass of evidence that, despite the heavy penalties for listeningin and the efforts of the Germans to prevent it, the broadcasts are being listened to by increasingly large numbers throughout Europe. The programmes are becoming more and more specialised, and directed to particular countries. —8.0.W,

BRITAIN'S TAXES

RUGBY, February 18,

Income tax receipts in Britain for the financial year, which began on April 1. 1941; are 50 per cent, greater than at the corresponding date in the previous financial year, according to Exchequer returns. The figures are £604,813,000, against £403,369,000. The total ordinary revenue for the week ended February 14 was £66,106,743, against a total ordinary expenditure of £92,642,115.—8.0. W.