| Show INCO VE rence OF I 1 THE P ENGLISH MILITARY costume Cos ruME the london Time may in a review of the facilities of at england for carrying on the war in the east says the there re ia 18 i no aw question stion that the organization af cur land and forces has lagged very greatly behind the improvements introduced into other branches of the service our troops are still dressed m in a manner the most inconvenient the most unbecoming and most unhealthy that is possible to imagine loaded like a d ay horse belted and strapped in like a dandy of the time of george IV throttled th a by his ock hed by hs helmet and compressed to suffocation cation by his belts tile the british soldier appears by the side of his french I 1 rival a monument of our folly and our cy an impersonation of the blunders of the past and a discredit to the enlightenment of tile the pie present and all this evil is incurred because there in isano ao authority strong enough to interfere with the profits of clothing colonels and to rescue the soldier from the tyranny of costume and abe iron dominion of routine we offer up our kil ted led highlanders High landers inglorious victims to the insects of the and our pipe clayed soldiers as a holocaust to the burning sun of thrace merely because this was the diess in in which the triumphs of the last war were achieved careless of sickness careless of misery careless of inefficiency so long as we can have the satisfaction that we have innovated nothing on the absurdities of our ancestors |
