DISTRIBUTING CLOTHING.
GERMAN WORKERS WEAR LINEN MADE FROM PAPER. NEW YORK, April 5. Clothes, 'stockings and thread now aro being distributed to tho working men and women of Germany by the Imperial Clothing Distributing Board. Accord- I ing to new measures announced by the board in the 'German press in the latter part of February, it will supply workmen engaged in war works with working garments. All such clothing for women and men will be withdrawn from the open market and distributed only by the board. A new method, the papers say, has been discovered for the manufacture of linen from paper. Such cloth may be boiled and washed, it is added,' "without danger of falling apart."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 5
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117DISTRIBUTING CLOTHING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 5
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