Show RED ARMY TROUSERS TO GO french soldiers will be clothed in gray blue take seven years year to make change paris the death warrant for the french soldiers red trousers was waa signed in the chamber of deputies in the future the army of the republic will so go to war clothed in a neutral shade of gray blue which it Is asserted will make the bearers wearers invisible to the enemy at GOO yards instead of as at present being plainly discern ible at 1500 yards the change la Is expected to take seven years M 11 Me meseley selmy the minister ot of war in urging the necessity for the measure was supported in his argument by citing tho the example of tho the british army which adopted khaki in the transvaal and the experience of the war lu in the balkans Dal kans al lastes an ex cavalry officer aroused the patriotic fervor of the deputies by saying that the french soldiers whether they dressed in blue red or gray would always fight well |