FRENCH ARMY TO WEAR KHAKI
£2,100,000 BUDGET FOR NEW UNIFORMS
PARIS, March 21. French soldiers in future will lie khaki-effid. The famous horizon blue, which during the war replaced the baggy red trousers and blue tunics with white gaiters in which the troops of Napoleon 111. fought against the Russiansnu 1870, is to be discarded, flic khaki is to be of the American tint. This year’s Budget will allocate £2,100,000 for the purchase of khaki cloth for tho new uniforms.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 2
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