1939-12-21 — Page 17

PARIS GOES TO WAR FOR 1940 STYLES

PARIS-Maginot and Pollu bitte, trench brown, plane gray and legion red were the dominating colours in atid-season collée- ilons of new military fusitions shown to-day.

The shows were given in spite;

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featured 14 wrap- Tweed salts of the war but greatly under its in-around skirt worn over bloomers or plus-fours in a bright, contrasting Cluence.

This feminine wear included.conts colour when matched accompanying shown with the

and bate blouses and suits with big military-style

militzery mudels. porkéta 10 to 20 inches long. Se

For "gas raids"there haven't new models by Schiaparelli showed

blue oil- swinging saddle pockets, some in for been any-there was

it ski and others in elaborately bratled skin ruil along the lines of

outßt. It carried an oliskin qud fabrics.

and the acessories included oilskin- topped boots and a pig-skin-covered

Many suits had leather-trtumed in Kwack style pockels swung

canteen to be carried at the hip. shoulder. Dresses had from the

A taffeta dress streaked with dark front pockets swung from bells.

red,

Was named bine green and Apart from the military motif

Meninouflage." **washerwinan" frocks, į featuring skirts adjustable at the alps for day length or ankle lengths i for evenings. Ostrich

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WerL loques

shown Wilh Thuse dresses.

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ARMY'S EARS BECOME ITS EYES

By IAN MACKAY

RADIO CITY.

THE Ministry of Supply tour of the munitions factories took us to a great optical works where men and women were skilfully fashioning the eyes of the Army.

To-day we have spent several fascinating hours watching

other men and women,

POLES IN BRITAIN JOIN UP

POLISH offer fought til the White Flag was hoisted in Gdynia.

Then be changed into civilian clothes, climbed into a lay plane. and escaped over the frontier.

more

With

than 50 other Poles living in this country-- you sec several in above picture -he registered at the Pollsh Embassy In London for servlet with the Polish Army in France. "I was probably one of the last officers 10 get out of Gdynia," he said.

"Now I want the chance to have a go at the Germans on something like equal terms."

Poles will Registration of continue at the Embassy 11 the end of November.

"Scotland Yard" For Africa

equally skilful, producing its when moves in gympathy with it, no that once the plane is picked up it ears the sound locators remains in sight-a prisoner of the which pick up the positionen.

At the trints I was told that the of hostile aircraft miles be- anti-aircraft guns wire on the target fint fainl fore they reach their target. Bree minutes after the

sound

was picked up. Incideritally, I noticed that the searchlight ed here was made by a frin which ne

builds omnibuses-another usually example of the war-time switchover of industry.

Only a few months ago the huge workshops where these marvellous mechanical listeners are being produced were turning

The sound localor must be perfget out radiograms, gramophone

and before it is taken over by the recordis and motor-cycles.

422 tests. To-day, more than 50 per cent, of! Army it has to survive the workers are doing nothing but apart from its inal field-trials.

Most of the work in the shell fuse war work. They are making sound! locators, predicters, shell fuses and shops is done by girls. The noise in this fuse shop was aknast unbear- aeroplane frames,

tor,

uncanny accuracy.

The sound locator, though not able, lice a tollstorm of cannon balls nearly so complicated as the predle-a corrugated from roof, but the is qusly astonishing in itsgirls have got quite accustomed to The machine and go on talking to each other self looks e something tant Heath about Robert Donni and Ann Sherl

dan as if they were in a hospital Robinson might have contrived ir

word. one of the more fanciful moods, Four Largo "Ears"

The Usos of Alcohol

They also help to make prismatie It consists of a great circular plat-compusses filled with alcohol. Believe form with several long arms to which it or not, the alcohol is there to "stop are attached four large "ears" which them from oscillating.”

for all the world like the

look

This is not the only paradox of buckets you try to throw the bails production, however, as it seerns that info in the skee-bot game.

the thicker the head locator the cleverer it is.

of a sound

There are three ears on one side and one on the other. The sounds reach the listener's ear through meter, which is meurate to a mil-

sort of stethoscope arrangement.

The whole machine can be moved sideways or up and down to keep in line with the sound.

In one room I was shown a micro-

lionth of an inch. It is so sensitive that if you stand near It the tempera- ture of your body will make it go wrong.

The

It has been found, however, that

care taken to ensure that Historinit is los difficult and fatiguing everything that goes out is "ship- so an ingenious electrient device has shape and Bristol fashion" is shown been invented which translates sound by the fact that every predictor is Into sight, so that the observer has placed in an articial rainstorm for PRETORIA. (U.P.A

only to watch a dial, which tells hin hours on end to unsure that it will polled branch, shapect to some ex-where the sound is coming from and stand up to the worst weather. Military-styli Coats had turn- YAKIMA, (UP)—Richard Stuhr,

has

collected more teul on the speelal brunch of Scat- from what distance. over collars, gold buttons and belts. ! Yakima, boy.

Yard in Britain. has been Planes at Sovan Miles than 2.000 packets of paper matches lend Sume copied trench coats.

special

in the last four years. Every one is created in South Africa to deal with in the Woul

Movements Jersey dresses showed different. The youth has two or underground millary touches at the collar peints three packets from every state in the which were of red velvet, and gold, Union, ene from Caundy, one from Union, as well as with such bodies an and 10 the reyshirts, the brownshirts and embroidered

various French | Englund, two from Alasku

other Fascist organisailons.' from the Hawaiian Islands. army insigniin.

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I was Informed that a well-trained crew will pick up an aeroplane seven markable precision. The locatur is miles away and follow it with re- electrically linked to a searchlight,

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Everybody here is performing magnificent servie, but the busiest of them all is a tile fellow nobody has ever seen. Slave-Drivers

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He never ents or sleeps but just Rocs rushing about the place taking a hand in everything. This i our invisible friend the electron, and here, AS R world-famous scientist I said to me, they have

of electron slave-drivers." whipping him on to greater and greater efforts. Even the old cathode-ray tube, which only a few years ago was a scientists' plaything, is now perform- ing hurculean tasks.

The pity of it is that these things. I should be doing this at all but, as the electron is not im Englishman, and obeys Hitler just as implicitly. I suppose we must go on sweating bin until the blessed day arrives when we shall find something nobler for him to do.

TRIALS NEXT WEEK Glenorchy Nearly Ready To

Sail for England

The 9,000-ton motorship Glenorchy, biggest ship, with the Breconshire, ever bulit in Hongkong, will undergo her trials on Thursday, December 28, and her completion will be celebrat- ed by a grand cocktail party on board on the following day.

Progress on the Glenorchy since her launching at Talkoo Dockyard on August 17 has been better than was predicted, 215 January was the speculative date for her completion. She will now be able to snil for Shanghat early in the new year and on her maiden felp Home about 15 days later.*

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Her master to be Captain W of the Christie, lately in command Flintshire and the of the senior Blue Funnel skippers, who has already arrived in

Colony. Mr. I Blakey will be Chief Mate. Mr. J. Threlfall, who came from fome to superintend the installation of engines in both the Breconshire.und the Glenorchy, will return with the ship as Chief Officer.

The Glenorchy is a cargo-passenger ship built to the comfortable speci Acations of eight new Glen Line ships. In the opinion of Mr. Threlfall she is the best of the lat several and he expects her to be knots faster than her sisters.

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