The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-12
WAR ECHOES

Glasgow Times: Khaki, the color which renders 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 color, but after vsit to the laundry was understandable. A NIanches- ter business man, discussing this defect, remarked casually that fortune awaited the man who could find a khaki dye tha- neither sun, soap nor soda would fade. young officer heard the remark, hired skilled native dyer and began the search. Years passed in fruitless experi- ments, till one day, passing over a heap of rags, relics of their failures. they ehanced upon one piece which was still khaki, though the laundry had worked it's will. But it had received no special treat ment, so far as they knew, except that t had fallen into q metal dish That was the secret. The metal of the dish and to produce that fadeless khaki color which makes soldiers invisible and turned the lieutenant into a millionaire.
 Dispatch from The Hague to the London Standard: Mention has been made of the frequency with which the Dutch regi- ments on frontier duty have to be re- lieved in sder to prevent thems from coming to blows with the Germans. The German minister at The Hague has just received an address from three Dutch battalions in Limberg, who ask him u inform the Kaiser that they can per sonally testify to atrocities committed ly German troops on the Belgian frontier. The communication concludes with n expression of profound indignation at the sights witnessed, and warns the min- ister that if by chance German troops would kill them to a man, if only to take some small revenge for what the heroic Belgians had to suffer.
 The minister has communicated all this to the Dutch government, and made q formal demand that the affair be in quired into and the soldiers punished for what he terms their insulting and lying communica tion.'
 Dispatch from Belgium in the London Post@ 'The King is the real, active di- recting commander in chief of the army. His office is near the front, and he is at the office early in the morning, some times at s o'clock, rarely later than 9. At midday little inn near by sends him luncheon. It is very simple, sometimes lacking even in what middle class clti- zen of London would regard as the ordi- nary comforts of the table. Of course. tho King could get anything he wanted, if he chose to employ the military transport to bring it up from the coast. He is so vii tally absorbed in his work. however, as to be indifferent to his comfort. So long as he can get a cigar after luncheon he is satisfied, and even that has sometimes been lacking.
 .In the afternoon the Kings labors con tinue. He has visits to receive and to make. He goes often to the trenches. Or late he had decided that the Belgian army would be encouraged if it saw a little Of views are fairly frequent, and when there is a chance for a regiment ordered from enc part of the front to another to march past the King with music, the chance is taken.
 ''Sometimes it is nine in the evening be- fore the King leaves his office. but more usually he goes at six or seven, prob ably to his temporary palace which the German airmen are always seeking out with bombs, but which happily they have not yet found. He continues then to carry on the work of state, but his days labor in the public eye stretches to an average of eight or nine hours"