Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: American war correspondent Mitch Mitchell is stationed in London working for Consolidated Press of America, Fact2: Mitch is waiting for news of expected German invasion of Britain from reporter on Continent determined to scoop competition, Fact3: United States being neutral at time, Fact4: Consolidated Press use hotel 's wine cellar for new headquarters, Fact5: telephones with is killed by aerial attack more pigeon-delivered vital information but in middle of call
Output (English): In September 1940, American war correspondent Mitch Mitchell is stationed in London, working for Consolidated Press of America, which represents 1000 newspapers. Mitch is anxiously waiting for news of the expected German invasion of Britain from a reporter on the Continent the United States being neutral at the time, determined to scoop his competition. He manages to rent Sir Titus Scotts wire from Penzance in Cornwall for a week to save forty minutes for an exorbitant amount, much to the dismay of his boss, H. Cyrus Stuyvesant. The information is to come by coded radio and homing pigeon messages. Twelveyearold Albert Perkins and the elderly Mr. Bindle watch for the pigeons. During one of the many nighttime air raids against London, Mitch meets Jennifer Carson, a teletype operator at the Ministry of Information. They seek shelter in the Tube and become acquainted. The Consolidated offices and all the teletype machines are destroyed in the raid, but Mitch obtains the services of Jennifer and a teletype machine from Duffield, a Ministry of Information official. He then talks Mr Hobbs, the Regency Hotels managing director, into letting Consolidated Press use the hotels wine cellar for its new headquarters. A bomb plunges into the cellar, but fails to explode, so everyone assumes it is a dud. Later, however, Jeff, a blind Consolidated employee, realizes it is live and notifies Mitch, just as Mitch finally receives the pigeon message he has been waiting for. Mitch evacuates the place, but Jennifer suspects he is merely trying to bypass the censor, Captain Lionel Channing, so she refuses to leave. Another bomb closes the entrance, trapping them in the cellar. Mitch has Jennifer use the teletype to begin sending his big scoop: Hitler has gone to Calais, indicating the invasion is imminent. When Jennifer realizes he is sending uncensored information, she tries to persuade him to stop. They engage in a struggle before he locks her up. Then, Albert telephones with more pigeondelivered vital information, but in the middle of the call, he is killed by the aerial attack. Mitch is devastated. Instead of transmitting his news, Mitch describes Alberts death. Jennifer is touched, and when the rescue team frees them, Mitch and Jennifer leave the wine cellar together.