London, Dec. 20.
Entertaining members of the foreign press association at a luncheon today, Mr, Edward Burgin, the Minister of Supply, evoked rounds of applause when he declared: "Almost all. the civilised world—with one represented here today."
He added that the Allies were fighting to put truth pedestal, and that they back on its might rest assured that every communique received in Britain woul id be strictly factual. Mr. Burgin delighted the cosmopolitan audience by speaking to them successively in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian—
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