War-Starved Press

Great Britain's nine "national" dailies-are all published in London, all (except the Times) sell for a penny. Before the war, they used to run from 16 to 20 pages a day. Two months ago, when the Nazi in vasion of Norway pinched off Britain's chief supply of newsprint (TIME, April 29), they dropped to ten pages, then to eight.

Last week they dropped again -to a lean six pages -with a starveling four in prospect. Thinnest British paper was the Communist Daily Worker, reduced to a single sheet. Not censorship but dwindling cash and paper stocks forced the Daily Worker to curtail. Hard-hitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill took no chance of alienating Comrade Stalin by cracking down on the Daily Worker. By way of tactful acknowledgment, Moscow papers printed 2,000 words from Churchill's speech on the retreat of the B. E. F. from Flanders.

-In -France, newspapers were in a graver plight than in England. A Government edict forced them to reduce consumption of paper by one-half. This order limits them to two pages (a single sheet) five days a week, four pages twice a week.

-Daily Express, Daily Herald, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, News Chronicle, Daily Sketch, Daily Tele graph & Morning Post, the Times, Daily Worker.

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