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Filed Pursuant to Rule 497
Registration File No.: 33-36217
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS OF
DEAN WITTER GLOBAL SHORT-TERM INCOME FUND INC. DATED DECEMBER 24, 1996
On July 28, 1997, certain other open-end investment companies
("Multi-Class Funds") to which Dean Witter InterCapital Inc. (the "Investment
Manager") serves as investment manager began offering their shares in four
classes, each with a different combination of sales charges, ongoing fees and
other features. Dean Witter Global Short-Term Income Fund Inc. (the "Fund")
will continue to offer one class of shares. In order to reflect
implementation of this multiple class distribution system, the Fund's
Prospectus is revised as follows:
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers. The category of waivers of
applicable contingent deferred sales charges is revised also to include
redemptions of Fund shares held by all employer-sponsored plans qualified
under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code which offers investment
companies managed by the Investment Manager or its subsidiary, Dean Witter
Services Company Inc., as self-directed investment alternatives and for which
Dean Witter Trust Company or Dean Witter Trust FSB serves as Trustee or the
401(k) Support Services Group of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. serves as
recordkeeper ("Eligible Plan"), provided that either: (a) the plan continues
to be an Eligible Plan after the redemption; or (b) the redemption is in
connection with the complete termination of the plan involving the
distribution of all plan assets to participants.
Exchange Privilege. Under the section "Shareholder Services--Exchange
Privilege," the term "CDSC funds" is amended to mean the Fund, Dean Witter
National Municipal Trust, Dean Witter High Income Securities and Class B of
the Multi-Class Funds.
In addition, the third paragraph in the same section is deleted to reflect
that shares of the Fund may no longer be acquired in an exchange for shares
of a "front-end sales charge fund" (as defined in the Prospectus) or shares
of an Exchange Fund (as defined in the Prospectus) acquired in exchange for
shares of such a front-end sales charge fund.
July 28, 1997
