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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 26 March 1915, Page 2

Khaki, the colour which renders our soldiers so difficult to see, was discovered by a happy accident. The British troops in India wore a cotton uniform, which, when it was new. was khaki in colour, but after a visit to the laundry was indescribable. A Manchester, business man, discussing this defect, remarked casually that fortune awaited the man who could find a khaki dye that neither sun, soap, nor soda would fade. A young officer ocard the remark, hired a sk'lfui native dyer, and began '’9 search. Years passed in ruitless experiments, till one day, turning over a heap of rags relics of their failures —they chanced upon one piece which was still khaki, though the laundry 'had worked its will. But it had received no special treaim'at, so far as they knew, except that it had fallen into a metal dish. That was the secre\ The metal of the dish and the chemicals in the dye had combined to produce that fadeless khaki colour which makes our soldiers invisible, and turned the lieutenant into a millionaire.