POLL ON LEOPOLD HAS WEAKENED BELGIAN THRONE
By A Brussels Correspondent
The Belgium referendum → I almost said by- -election —— on King Leopold's return has been half- the most drama, half-farce. One thing is clear - stable and unquestioned monarchy on the Con- tinent has been grievously weakened as a result.
Convoy PQ 18
made his fame
ADMIRAL BURNETT
of the Murmansk run
Navy Lose
Man Nazis Feared
When the issue of Leopold's conduct during the war first inflamed, Bel- gian politics, there Was never any question about the monarchy.
adulation
The Belgians have on almost Victorian
for their Family. Royally Roynt
ita Belgium has united the dour Flemish - speaking population with their more Dery French- speaking compatriots,
FEW REPUBLICANS
The result is that republican- non-existent In Jem is almost Belgium.
It le this adoration of the Royal Family which explains the fact that Leopold still hus thore thren half the country.
behind
tions
even
him, despite
his war- behavinur - and,
serious, his unpopular i wartime marriage to n com- moner, the beautiful Ming
IROTU
| Lilion Buels.
The working class took the uncompromising view "The king should have married one of his own class."
Leopold Widenest which at first concerned only himself personally, intr one concerning the monarchy.
STRIDENT POSTERS
İsta
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950.
THE FRENCH LOOK IN LONDON
Arthur Everitt, left, proprietor of a coffee stall in London, wanted to bring a touch His efforts of the French boulevards to his establishment on Old Kent Road. apparently were not wasted; those plants seem to be pleasing his customers. - (Acme).
Georgian
Atmosphere
Created For A Day
London, Mur. 20,
By J. W. Erskine
Services' Savile Row at Woolwich
“NEW LOOK" DESIGNED
FOR THE ARMY
Creating a new uniform for the Services takes almost as much skill and experience as that behind a Spring Collection of the Parisian Big Five! Giving the Army a "new look" calls for a thorough knowledge of military traditions and ability to reconcile these with modern trends in dress: it needs an organisation of craftsmen and business experts which can at once meet the wishes of the War Office, satisfy the conditions of mass-production and, above all, ensure that the taxpayer's money is not wasted.
The Army's new "No. 11 Sharing Mr Gazzard's room in two shades of yellow, two its at Woolwich is "the estimating shades of blue, three shades of Dress,"
red, and in grey, black, cherry, first appearance on the ar-solving giant jigsaw puzzles. maroon or while. Five varie- rival in Britain recently of Standing at a long, bread table, tics of beret will be issued for M. Vincent Auriol, is an the surface of which is marked
walking-out." in the widths of various example. Behind the smartpun
he takes the shaped blue uniforms worn by regi-
dboard patterns and arranges |mental bands which greeted and re-arranges them until they
the French President lay a
are filled long history of careful de- sign and painstaking plan- ning.
2800.
which made
cutter," who
Imlerited
contractors
spends
In terms,
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his life
mean
by
In
all, the specifications for the new uniform total 150 pages of closely-typed foolscap paper. This does not include the varia tions for the Scottish regiments, final details for which are now being completed. Highland re- giments will wear the kilt and a Jacket of pipe Kreen: Lowland regiments will be dressed An trews and n blue, short-skirted doublet.
on traditional Ines. Apart from the kilts and rews, witch are already in existence, there are 11 variations of the No. 1 Dress for Scottish regiments.
NORMAN HARTNELL'
fitted together on the table compactly
as possible. Twisting and turning the
Biling patterns.
the angle of a tapet snugly into the curve of a The man behind the No. 1 sleeve, he Bnally achieves hla length Dress is Mr J. W. Thomas, solution-the minimum MBE, who fire! entered the of cloth needed to produce the La world of military
question. uniforma in garment
this when he joined what was technical
is the the Royal Anny Clothing "garniture," Factory. He is now head of the
MONEY SAVED Ministry of Supply's Garraent
This means money saved for Development Section at Wool- the taxpayer. An inch gained wich, where almost every item by the estimating cutter on his of Service clothing, from Guard-
The No. 1 Dress lɔ, of course, Table laying-out men's overcoats to WHAC hundreds of yards saved
only one job among many for pyjamos, seęs the Wght of day.
Mr Thomas and his staff at Tucked
on an order of. Woolwich. They have designed behind away
the perhaps, 10,000 -or more gar- the new uniforms for the RAF, walls of ments. high, spot-encrusted Woolwich Arsenal, the Garment
and the the WRAF, An example
regional of this was a bands of the Air Force, which A small, private exhibition was held recentlyDevelopment Section is a fantas
contraci for soho 76,0100 in Burlington House, home of the Royal Academy. Private letters from the mixture of Savile Row tailor-demobilisation
are now being prepared. ralnconfs Liven Lord Burlington to HM. King George II, caricatures by Hogarth, original
ing, mariern factory-made cloth-to ind theatrical costuming. price was too high, because of furtuell
a manufacturer, list are preparing the new WRAC
irst uniform-designed by
by Norman sketches by Inigo Jones, and rare first editions of books on architecture was at the Garment Develop-waslefil
but developed at Wool- cutting of material.
wich. The department was also at were on show.
Given garnitures produced
responsible for the new uniform Woolwich, he saved Is. Dad per held during
which London's polleewomen reception
Mr A.W. Acworth, who a
raincoat-which meant £6,782 tonig three hun- the Honorary Secretary of the
appeared in 1940. In answer to a War Office re- saved for the taxpayer! of the society Croup, has written an excellent quest for a new ceremonial and
Clothing every type and A useful source of income at The Leopold ref:readus was Group, and the small collect the pleasure of seeing mad book on Georging build- "walking-out"
variety is designed and deve uniform. Mr
Woolwich is also provided by Trasety for tion was designed to show hee tare documents, which ing in the Caribbean. He ex-Thomas and his staff produced the sale of patterns to contrac
loped at Woolwich. During the pa few months alone, garments The the beginnings of the Palla- ! trace the complete history of plained how dillcult it was for 20 different designs. Those tors. They now run at some explaiting the dian Movement.
Cufortun- Burlingum House, 1.3 The those who are
turned out by the Section have accustomed to were shown
tu
£350 a year, but during the
Included
inner
and outer of the late Queen
other ranks from
war they provided approximate parkng" for cold weather wear, regiments again.t
her husband ately, great numbers of the Quten, saw it during the after-alladian architecture, whether re
it the Banqueig House in throughout the Army, thely £2,000 annually for the Ex-n white drill
uniform for mant, have ramsed considerable public who are interested in
Princess Mary was the guest Whitehall or the latest example choice of the present design | chequer, pain
to the arted Queen this most graceful era of of honour, and among the dis of "Bankers" Georgian.
on tropical service, bush 1 being based to a great extent an โบ
The task of preparing speci- English history, will never inguished
realize how revolutionary were their opinions.
dress in white silk for The GDS then Acations for the contractor is jackets, Mother.
the French An- the designs which Inigo Jones produced 100 prototypes of the
WRAF, etely were
battle dress for the not finished after the the Meanwhile,
havsce these rare exhibits, for nintained is almost legendary they were on show for only
baseador and the Chairman of initiated, and which Burlington new uniforms which, at a parade estimating cutter has solved his and a rotary Quinn
Atti Council Great and his friends carried through held at Buckingham Palace in
Military Nursing Alexandra's jig-saw. In addition, every Service. The new combat suit for Tense of jusury.
2. successfully,
July 1946, fully gained Royal inch of stitching in The proto- Even visitors from Paris ar one night,
approval. vitali overwhelmed by carrying
Be scale on which plenty has been vished this modest-sized capital.
BERDEENSHIRE-Dora,
G2-
It was
Aured Adntrat Sir Ro- that
Leopold who insisted
m this referendum. It escaped oner kant becomes iscrt Burnett, Commander-in-| the subgret of an election, he Chief, Plynenuth, the man whom ceases to be a king he becomes
Navy learned to the head of a party. the German fear, hus hauled down his fag and my into retirement.
In him the Navy his best man wiser name flashed into the hadines of the world's Peera on September 20, 1942,
On that date there appeared the account of how, in the now! historie Arctic convey PQ IN, he
Bri! Jonres, avenger Ficht eported in Murman a hot of merchantanen
supplies.
Cite
Then
rear-admiral troyers) he flew his Hog in the lacht entier Scylla, reedfully worki
FI
biltr personal the Belgian Royal Family, stridot puter memory Astrid
Bruncle
1: is advisable in Bruss and Jub-i never ta sat out alone, if enty the net became the The fou Flan" to beat the Luftwaffe and, hands to hold them.
U-honta
bad wheth
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4. with relief that
d covers
maturant where i
avage tolf of convoy after emel vay on the long run from Seapo Flow to Muruan and Arch- the menu
THE SCHARNHORST
"Bob" was also the man who found the Schurmhad on Box ng Day. 1943, in the delayers Gorth of North Cape.
She slipped out of his hands after she had been hit, but the
{
ean be rend in less}
tim lauf an hour.
20-YEAR-OLD TUNES
Ador
collis prosperou citizens adjourn to night habis. n Hue at ann's lentila 1 1930 tunes play by a siper
A wartet, or go to one of
lace eurtei the inovbarrabje 100s,
Price have reared so such admiral anticipated the enemy's that the art obvious ecmiomy intentions and found her again for a visitor is to eat only once
1aker hours
exactly a day, severni where he predicted she would be.
Fontuote The British AMI- bassador's
lates residence This time, with the darkness atmosphere of British restraint night astern of The door to the visitors' bath- Belfast, Sheffield and Norfolk, so smalt that when Mr down into the Bevin visited Brussels recently Flers the Embassy had to be told hi the Honu
Ameasureinents in care he could
of the Arctie
he nursed her clutches of
Balle Squadron, under miral Sir Bruce, noW Fraser.
Lord 110 enter the room.
The uns of the Duke of Yor! of British the forpedoes nd Norwegian destroyers seot; the blazing pride of the Ger-i man Fleet to her doom in 1390. fathorns.
'ON THE BEACH'
Not Errol Flynn After All
Laurie has a rivat. Francis, n 12-year-old mule, is making a personal appearance iour of America.
In New Orleans, he appearısı
a parade. has on TV and led
A
And now "Bob" Burnett, Jater i C-in-C South Atlantic, linuled down his flag where he Buffalo, New York, department "on the store made him guest of honour
started and is going
beach" after what he says have for a day. In Miami, Florida, been 47 really good years."
the swank Roncy Plaza Hotel Kave him a cabana to himself.
Admiral Str Rhoderick
Francis's claim to notoriety is McGrigor, known throughout the Navy a "Wee Mine," hasased on his voluble assertion, in a movie entled "Franels," that hoisted la flag as Admiral Burnett's
nt Ad- he fought and won the battle of successor
Burma almost single-handed. iniralty House, Plymouth.
-Lention Express Service.
At a ar.
The exhibition was ranged by the Georgian | Boss overung.
LANL
th
Britain.
GIFT FROM
members
members
ITALY
the
Workmen apply a preliminary clay coating to a 20- foot-high chalk model in a bronze works in Rome, Italy. The statue, one of four executed in America, will be cast in bronze as a gift from the Italian Govemment for installation on the Arlington Bridge In Washington, D. C. (Acme).
The work of Inigo Jones was
ment Section, back in 1946, that the few No. I Dress was born,
20 DESIGNS
་
to officers
In
type farment is measured to the Army, which is now under-
aloo anti going field trials, wh? pro- Shortly after this, the public discover the minimum amount
duced at Woolwich. were given a sneak preview" of thread needed, and the exact of the No. 1 Dress, when some| length of all things, interlinings, 700 uniforms in the new design piping and hair canvas must beveloped by the GDS each year.
MAL Army
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the
calculated,
In the case of the new No. I Dress, regimental variations in colour and design call for many Manu- reparate specifications. factured in barathea for war- rant officers, serke for other ranks, in blue for the bulk of the Anny and green for the rifle will be
fresh, clean and novel. He had the courage to put up, in the midst of over decorated. mullioned.
gabled houses, pure Italian building, which WELC Worn
in in its elaborate setting mechanized column which was and can be described as nothing touring Britain in a mammoth
drive. Since Hurlington
a short Fruiting
uf materials shortages distance down Piccadilly, money held up production until well-known by visitors to Lane
this yenu. Although now alterel Producing a new uniform for bulusid and outride. The the Anny takes time. After uncleus of Burlington House the
nike, from the building de individual garments had regiments, the tunica stened by Sir John Denham forn designed, prototypes made decorated with piping in a wide
the GDS range and approval diven.
of regimental colours, the first Earl of Burlington. had still to face the bulk of its making 57 distinct varieties of
tack
tanic in all. MORE ALTERATIONS
could be 11 1717 Culk Campbell was asked to fender, the master- etimbrioned to improve" it, patterns of the w uniform
way
to
Before contractors
On an overage, almost 100 new designed and de- garments are
SEALED PATTERNS
Over 200 garnitures and over 000 patterns
were produced by the Section In January and February. During the past six months, 815 prototype and Ser vice-tria; garments
were made in the workshops at Woolwich.
The sealed pattern" prototype if the new No. 1 Dress Koon take its place alongsitle 113 forerunners, It will be stored in the CDS workrooms with
the war full dress uniforms of the Army, a complete range of which is rept al Woolwich.
PEAKED FORAGE CAP Tru; ers will be in three to he gave it # Geargin front had to be cut. This vital stage) colours, blue, green and, for the elevation, re-organised the in-in the operation is handled at 11th Hussars, crimson. Double They form a fascinating col-
Crior ind nded beautiful Woolwich by Mr G. Gazzard, and single stripes at the stoc
lection, Drab wooden acrates in the curved colonnades and a gate who was formerly with a world-
in widths from one io two workroom open to revent the the forecourt.
famous Arra of West End tailors.
for inches, will be in scarlet
ereerful maroon and yellow of The Royal Academy acquired
ESTIMATING CUTTER Car infantry and
individual the "cherry Pickers' old full- i1 in 1867 and had to alter it
scarlet for ather regiments, dress, or the gorgeous Cutting his patterns from this entours drastically for their purpose-card, Mr Gazzard had to pro-adding up to 53 variations. fold brocade of a State Trum- Galleries were built out over
There are 58 variations in peter's tunic, The sombre splen- Scots Guards pipe- with major's Lunte lies above the gay,
sprend
1)
the garden, the front elevation cefferent svis for every
The tunic of the design of the peaked farage dour of a WHS raised lay the addition of size of soldier.
a
the No. 1 Dress will have to be cap, which will be worn storey, and there were
in 30 variations of No. 1 Dress on ceremonial oc- scarlet of the Grenadiers' were produced more alteration to the Interior height, chest and waist
dark green,dress. mea-casions. Blue, Only the Ave rooms on the surements. This meant 36 scarlet, red, crimson or white.
arst
flour, the scene of the re-
cent reception, remain sub separate patterns to cut. stantially the same as Burling- fon teft them. The room in which the exhibition was held was originally the dining room, and is now the General As- sembly Room.
Among the interesting pieces on view
Was 話 sinal book written anonymously and de- dicated
to Lord Burlington, which containg one of the earliest criticisms of architec- Lure in England.
There were criginal drawings by Andrea Palladia, represen tative of the collection of draw- ings by Palladio made by Lord Burlington, Palladio's Villa Captra 40 fascinated Inigo Jones.
and Colin Campbell Burlington that they were each
In turn Inspired to try and desten something of the same
sort. In his movie debut, Francis earns
£45 ຕ
K. O. CANNON
THIS IS THE ROAD TO
MARSH FOLLY, ALL RIGHT. IF WE KEEP ON THEIR TAILS.
WE'LL SEE ALL THE FUN.
YOU CALL IT FUN, 107 1 „DON'T TRUST
THAT OSVIL
PROFILE AN INCH -NOT
WT7H
WHISPER!
week.
SHE'S A GOOD KID, STIKAUPS! MUSTN'T
LET HER DOWN.
The Riddle of the Red Domino
OH) IT'S K.O. AND STIRRUPS - THE DARLINGS. I FEEL BETTER NOW.
OUR FRIEND IS STICKING TO US LIKA GLUE, DO VOLI
THINK IT'S TIME WO DAVE, HIM THE SUP, MA, PROFILE?
KENT GARDEN
The deslans by Jones never reached further than the draw- ing board stage, Campbell was more fortunate and produced Morewarth Castle, and Burling- fon designed: Chiswick House. which is less grand in concep- tion.
of it: "It is too small to live in, too Inrge to hang on a watch chain." By
way
it of compensation possesses one of the first of the grent English landscape gardens designed by Kent.
As Chesterfield
For the student of architec- ture thera who a wealth of treasure in this beautiful room, but most appealing was a de-
sign by William Kent in 1735
a design for House of Lords. Round the drawing was some
they will have bands and welts
and
The new "No. 1" is a worthy Luccessor to them all.
BRINGING TREASURE FROM THE SEA
of the highest class doodling in waiting to unload their cargoes in Bergen Harbour. The value of a single boat's
Herring fishing is big business in Norway, and these are just some of 70 boats
the form of lords, coaches and cats.
|····
catch ranged from £5,000''lo° ̈ £85,000 -- and that'sTM nice fishing, -·(Acme),