BRITAIN'S POLICEMEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 74, 6 July 1942, Page 2

BRITAIN'S POLICEMEN

LEARNING RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND SAILORS TALK TOGETHER IN CHINESE British soldiers, sailors and airmen are learning" to speak Chinese by gramophone. A big demand has grown up in the last few months for gramophone language courses, not only in Chinese but also in Russian. In many parts of the country nron in the Services have formed study groups to help them to learn French and German .as well as . Russian and Chinese. Policemen in Britain are forming groups to give themselves a knowledge of German and Russian. Home Guards arc also occupying their.spare time in picking up German at their guard posts. The Friends' Ambulance Unit which worked on the Burma Road has had courses in Chinese. Courses in Spanish have been sent out to U.S.A. for the American Air Force, | | and other U.S. Forces are learning , I Russian. i A gramophone course in English j is popular with sailors in the Nor- j wegian and Dutch Merchant Ser- j vices; and French Canadian soldiers arc also using the gramophone re- j cord s3 r stem. The Free Services of ( France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Po- j land and Holland are about to learn to speak English in a gramophone Course which is being recorded with , the aid of BBC announcers. , Nine cut of ten of the language j courses now being produced in Britain are going to the Services. The chief demand is for Russian, Chinese and German, although courses in 5 Arabic, Hindustani and Japanese ( have been twken up by certain Sere vice personnel. r