THE TRICOLOUR UNIFORM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 2, 20 August 1914, Page 4

THE TRICOLOUR UNIFORM.

When the French Chamber of Deputies was discussing the new Army uniforms on July 9th last, few Frenchmen could have expected that within a month their country would bo in thcthroes of war. 1 The new uniform was to be “tricolour,” and the Minister'foi War declared that it would be as little visible at five hundred yards as the ! old ones were at; fourteen- hundred. It is, of course, an optical fact that a mixture of red. white and blue is at a d'-tam-e as hard tn see as grey or khaki. The Chamber approved of the vote for the new colour, but the Minister mentioned that it would take the manufacturers five years to clothe the Army. Already, he pointed out, twelve years had been wasted in discussion, apparently because it was difficult to persuade the public and the Chamber that beauty should not be the first

consideration. The Army, he urged, was not intended for parade, but foi fighting. It may be confidently expected, however, that our French friends will fight as well in their present uniform as in any other, remarks the Christchurch “Press.”