Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-29
cAMOUFLAGE STYLES
CHANGE WITH SEASONS

| CHANGE WITH SEASONS
Paris. Dec. - vamoualge camp,
ire working al ton speed nov a.
over France. preparing new materia
i all kinds for the winter TO r.
| lace thar which has been in use
since last Spring. Styles in camou
iage change each spring and tal
I follow the course Of the seasons
For spring and summer green and
! llue are the predominant eolors in
,amoufage because foliage and grass
make those the prevalent colorS on
he average landscape In autumn
tarious changes are made 10 suit
limatic conditions, as Tor example.
n the case of a big gun hidden by
alse bushes and vines. During the
summer ii looked natural enough in
Is leafy green bower. but with all
gegetation dead in the late fall. it
5 necessary to change the green
mask gradually to a brown or gray,
ust as though the camOufiage bushes
we're dying. For winter The camou
lage runs 10 white. for snow scenes,
mixed with black brown and gray
or mud
The French army is continually
laying more and more attention 10
Is camoutiage service and there are
numbers OF American cam0utlage stu
ents in the various camps learning
he art that they may handle it for
he United States army
Various sectors Of the front have
heir own special camoutiage camps
The chiefs of these camps are often
X-scene painters, and many OF them
IRE old habitues Of Montpamasse and
he Latin Quarter They study the
Prevailing color conditions at the
rout and concentrate all their energy
II devsne .camoufiage to meet those
particular conditions.
In the Nosges. for instance. the
erram everywhere is hilly and even
and the slopes are COW
red with evergreen trees and brush /
'amouhage installed there must be
" very different character TO that |
lsed in Champagne. however, whore /
Ne country is fiat gently rolling
md the soil peculiarly yellow and al
most sandy. The terrible rayages Of
nearly two years of continuous fight I
ny in the Eerdun sector. along both I
ranks Of the Meuse. has caused i.
hat whole battlefield to take on a
,ombre dark look, as though every
nch of the ground was seepea in
Hood. Black is the color note used .
L Nerdun. as the ground has been .
huroed up times innumerable by (
Ugh explosive shells and shrapnel,
nd the earth is impregnated with
feel, melnite. trinitrotoluene and
vddite. Wherever gas has been used
leaves trace in Withered yegeta-
ion. Even weeds do not spring up
places lately visited by the terrible
hemieal connections waited across
No Mans Land"
Further east in the Rheims-Sois-
lns -Sain Quentin districts, the loan
of the familiar dark brown color
hitch shades OFF to a darker hue as
he fertile plains OF Flanders are
cached
Each particular forest along the
ont presents its own problem. In
Ie Argonne whore the Crown Prince
as been held stationary for more
ran three years. the camoufiaee !
rtists have had to keep changing
ier properties" continually. Al
cough there has been no infantry
,tivity there for months. the French
nd German batteries shell each
her and the advanced lines vigor
lsly every day After all this time,
Ie repeated bombardments have
ithered away to forest to a mere
election OF battered, blaekened tree
jumps in some places, In other
aces, however. the trees are still
4 tt,,, Il F,,1t L.,
INNER. Parts of the forest are in
but these are generally
RELIED frequently to scare snipers \
III observers out of their branches
Roads near the front are always I
imouilaged by endless screens plac. \
along the edges and held in place 4
. poles Sometimes the screens are \