CLOTHING THE ARMY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 16

CLOTHING THE ARMY

THREE THOUSAND MILES OF KHAKI 0-: BRITAIN'S £4,000,000 TAI&pR* BILL (Fhom Our Own Correspond! int) LONDON, Mijy 5. Nearly 3000 miles of khaki, .a'pough to stretch across the Atlantic, ier now being woven in Yorkshire mips to clothe Britain's two new the conscripts and the '; doubled" '-territorials, each numbering 200,000); men. In all. their tailor's bill wiujnto to £4,000,000, and the War Office Contracts Department has been waking on it practically day and night since the Prime Minister announced' conscription. The big civilian tailors are to c.ooperate with the Government .contractors in getting the new armies into uniform. The contractors, with automatic guillotines for cutting the ;cloth, and plant which turns out streaflos of shirts at the rate of one a minut9**annot cope with the rush unaided'. 1 * 1 . Meanwhile, there are non-khald 1 uniform requirements for other sections of the Forces. Recent orders include 2.000.000 yards of cotton ouierall material for the Air Force':- ( and 15,000,000 yards of heavy duck tart- the Army.