Victory bulletin from Africa

Back in the Chestnut Tree Café, a trumpet-call announces a bulletin from the front: a vast seaborne armada has achieved a perfect coordination and inflicted a total rout on the Eurasian army. Half a million prisoners have been taken, and all Africa is under Oceanic control. The news is 'victory, victory, victory!' Winston is caught up in the cheering, and his feet make convulsive movements under the table. He thinks how only ten minutes ago there had still been equivocation in his heart. Now he feels the final, healing change has happened.