London, Oct. 31.
The Covent Garden Opera subsidy lof £17,500 annually for five years {from '1930 has been suspended. However the British Broadcasting Company has offered to step into the breach and give assistance opera, Under the arrangement whereby the Government granted the subsidy ithe British Broo" company supplemented the Governtaent grant by £7,500 annually and the gramophone' companies also added £5,009 jo year, The subsidy was granted by the Government during the time Lord Snowden was Chancellor of the Ex-Jehequer, and when Lady Snowden iwas on the board of the broadcasting
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