Camouflage of the World War is not a modern kind of deception. Nineteen hundred years ago Pliny wrote that seven kinds of paint were used on ships, a purpie, a violet, a blue, two whites, a ’ cllow apd a green. And there was a paint whieh matched the colour of tl.f v avtp. This *as selected for vessels •mp’oyed in piracy, to keep them out of aight.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 259, 1 November 1940, Page 8
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67Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 259, 1 November 1940, Page 8
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