Khaki as a Life Preserver.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11667, 29 January 1901, Page 1

Khaki as a Life Pr es erver.

— - — -oIx theDecenilx r Cuitury. undirthe title of "With the I'lkmg Relief Column," 1 ,ire printed j correspondent's notes of the lighting in China, by Frederick Palmer. The writer i* eloquent on the advantages of khaki as a uniform. "Tke accuracy of the Chinese rifle fire is amazing. I noticed that the bullets were knocking up the dost in front of our men after they sprang over the mad wall (where the writer was) and charged across the thousand yards between the mud wall nud their present position. That is always proof of good shooting. I suppose that the Welsh Fusiliers must bridge the bre:>k in the line where I can see no blue points. They are in full khaki. Our marines and the Ninth— the Ninth, so far *s I can learn, is in a cul-de-sac on tbe other side of tbe road from the marines — are wearing their blue shirts. (Theoretically, all American regiments in th* Philippines are in full khaki. "Virtually,, none is except those on police duty in the* towns. For campaigning both men and! officers prefer the blue woollen shirt,, which absorbs perspiration in the day time, and keeps off the chill and vapours at night). The British bluejackets are completely in blue, with white straw h^ta> The French marine infantry is in blue> with white helmets. The Russians in their white blouses, with the average field as a background, are as distineft as a week's washing on the line. As for the> Japanese, the white crowns of their capsmake so many bull's-eyes as the littte fellows bend to the double in a charge,' and the Jape are so cleanly that, unlike the Russians, they never allow their white to be soiled and become c natural khaki.' The advance this morning, when every man except the fusilier was a moving target, iff viewed by the homo staffs, would be sufficient to hasten the adoption of khaki by all tbe armies of the world After South Africa one. would expect at least an attempt to dis» colour white helmets; but every army gets its reforms out of its own ex* periecee."

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