According to the Huddersfield correspondent of the ''Manchester Guardian", the manufacture of ordinary cloth produced. "The work. ing of overtime la very extensive and machinery is being run both day and night. Despite this pressure, however, the demand for khaki is always in excess of the supply. Every few weeks the Brit-ith troops at the front require new uniforms, so that although the Government is said to have ordered 10,000 miles of cloth, more will probably be required. It is said, too, that the Allies will look to Great Britaiti for large quantity of army cloth, and, indeed, some contracts for France and Belgiam ate already well in hand. In adilition, a large order for the Greek Government has come to hand.
There are, therefore, gaad grounds for assuming that the present prosperity of the woolkn trade will continue for several months. The production of khaki has become more profitable so far as manufacturers are concerned, the enhanced price of wools having been more than covered by the additional shilling © yard which the War Office paying. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
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