1939-12-21 — Page 3

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21, 1939.

PARIS GOES TO WAR FOR 1940 STYLES

PARIS Maginot and Pollu blue, trench brown, plane gray and legion red were the dominating colours in mid-season collee- tions of new military fashions sliown to-day.

'The

shows

were given in spite

Q wrap-

Tweed sults featured of the war but greatly under its in-around skirt worn over bloomers or plus-fours izz 12 bright, contrasting juence.

This feminine wear included coals colour which matched accompanying

and hats, blouses onc quiia with big military-style pockets 10 to 20 inches long. Sometry models.

Fil

shown with the

haven't

"gas raids"--there new models by 'Schiaparelli showed

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

a ski and others in elaborately braided skin suit along the lines of

It carried an oilskin hood oulAt fabrics.

and the accessories included oilskin-

kanpsack style topped boots and a pig-skin-covered

Many suits had pockets swung in from.

shoulder. the

Dresses front pockets swung from belts,

inilitary

now

Apart from the were

"washerwoman"

leather-trimmed

hud

motif frocks. the

canteen to be carried at the hip.

A taffeta dress streaked with dark red, green and blue

named

"ewnouflage."

was

for evenings. Ostrich

toques dresses.

were shown with

coq. these

Boy Collects

Military-style

featuring skirts adjustable at

hips for day length or ankle length

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.

POLES IN

men

To-day we have spent several fascinating hours watching

other

and women, equally skilful, producing its which moves in sympathy with II, so' that once the plane is picked up it cars--the

sound locators remains in sight-n prisoner of the

beam. which pick up the position At the trials I was told that the of hostile aircraft miles be-miti-aireraft guns were on the target fore they reach their target. three minutes after the Nist/faini sound was picked up. Incidentally,

BRITAIN JOIN UP A POLISII officer fought till the White Flag was hoisted in Gdynia.

Then he changed into civilian clothes, climbed into a tiny plane, and escaped over the frontier.

more

GD than other With Poles Rving to his country- you see several in above picture -he registered at the Follsh Embassy in London for service with the Polish Army in France. "I was probably one of the last officers to 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 tl the end of November.

"Scotland Yard” For Africa

Match Books PRETORIA. (U.P.)-A specin YAKIMA, (U.P.)-chard Stohr, police branch, shaped to some ex- has collected more tent on the special branch of Scot- in Britain, has been than 2,000 packets of paper matches and Yard

coats ad Lurn- over collar, gold buttons and belts. Yakima, boy.

Same copied trench coats.

Wool.

dresses jersey military touches at which were of red embroidered with army Insignia.

in the last four years. Every one is created in South Africa to deal with Un the moverents hus two or underground showed different. The youth

the collar points three parkets from every state in die Union, as well as with such bodies as and 10 the greyshirts, the brownshirts and velvet and gold, Union, one from Canada, one fran

various French England; two from Alaska

other Fascist organisations. from the Hawaiian Islands.

Give a

1940

Only a few months ago the huge workshops where these marvellous mechanical listeners are being produced were turning out radiograms, gramophone records and motor-cycles.

noticed that the searchlight used here was made by a firm which usually builds omnibuses-another example of the war-time switchover of industry.

The sound locator must be perfect and before it is taken over by the Army it has to survive 422 tests, apart from its anal field trials.

To-day, more than 50 per cent. of the workers are doing nothing but

Most of the work in the shell fuse war work. They are making sound locators, predletors, shell fuses and slops is done by girls. The noise in this fuse shop was almost unbear- connon balls acroplane frames.

The sound locator, though not able, like n hallstorm of

on a corrugated Iron roof, but the Complicated as the predic-wirls have got quite necustomed to nearly tor, is

astonishing in its uncanny accuracy. The machine itit and go on talking to each other were in a hospital dan as if they self looks like something that Heath about Robert Donat and Ann Sheri- Robinson might have contrived, in word.

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one of the more fanelful moods.

Four Large "Ears"

The Uses of Alcohol

They also help to make prismatic It consists of a great circular plat-compasses filled with alcohol, Believe form with several long arms to which it or not, the alcohol to there to stop are attached four large "ears" which them from oscillating." look for all the world like the

This is not the only paradox of buckets you try to throw the balls production, however, as it seems that into in the skee-ball game.

of a sound the head the thicker There are three cars on one side

micro- In our room I was shown a and one on the other. The sounds locator the cleverer it is.

meter, which is accurate to mil- reach the listener's car through a

'It is so sensitive sort of stethoscope arrangement.

The whole machine enn be moved lont of an inch.

that

If you stand near it the tempera- sideways or up and down to keep inture of your body will make it go line with the sound.

wrong It has been found, however, that listening is too dimcuit and fatiguing, everything that goes

ensure that The care taken to

but is "ship- so an ingenious electrical device has shape and Bristol fasition" is shown been invented which translates sound

into sight, so that the observer has by the fact that every predictor is only to watch a dial, which tells hinipinced in an artificial rainstorm for

stand up to the worst weather, where the sound is coming from and hours on end to ensure that it will from what distance. Planes at Seven Miles

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

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Everybody here is performing magnificent service, but the busiest of them all is a Bttle fellow nobody has. over-seen. Slave-Drivers

He never eats or sleeps but just the place rushing about Rocs on taking a hand in everything. This is our Invisible friend the electron, undi here, as a world-famous scientist snid to me; they have " team 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 scientists plaything, is now perform- Ing hurculean tasks.

The pity of It is that these things should be doing this at all but, as the electron is not an Englishman, and obeys tiltler just as implicitly, 1 suppose we must go on sweating him until the blessed day arrives when we shall And something nobler for

n to do.

TRIALS NEXT WEEK Glenorchy Nearly Ready To

Sail for England

The 9,000-ton motorship Glenorchy, biggest ship, with the Breconshire, ever built 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

January predicted, as

Was the speculative date for her completion. 10 sall for She will now be able Shanghai early in the new year and on her malden trip Home about 15 days later.

Her master is to be Captain W. Christie, lately in command of the Filtshire and one of the senior Blue ho nireatly Furnel skippers, who

the arrived in

Colony. Blakey will be Chief Mate. Threlfall, who came from Hone

Installation superintend the

What to give

a lady ?

Whiteaway's Ladies' Department is brimful of bright suggestions-

a mere inspection of our attractive and colourful display will cause your "what to give" problems to melt away,

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