The sample suit was completed in secret by girls in a Belfast factory.
The suit will also be tested by General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who has unrivalled experience. of conditions in the Near East. Other famous generals will give their opinions, too.
Production of the new battle-suits is expected to begin soon. They will be turned out by the million from factories in Ulster and Lancashire. blockade runner in the Spanish war. "I cannot think how the mistake occurred," he said. "I used to run the blockade during the Spanish war and take about 1,000 refugees a week to France. I was bombed 127 times and never got a scratch. My ship, the Thorpe Bay, was sunk.
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