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 The French Helmet's Practical Success

���The new field equipment of the French infantryman The French h^ve fJ}^J^J'^.^^ efforts to substitute for their comic-opera uniforms of blue and red a practical fighting costume and they may now be considered as well clothed as any soldiers in tje field The steel helmet is the latest addition, and met with instant favor a^of^S^^he fighting men 1 he helmet is admirably designed, and tends to prevent the multitude of ^^^^dinjunes which have swelled the mortality rate. The illustrations of damaged helmets show the remarkable strength of this head-gear, for in all cases shown, the soldier was only shghtly wounded by missiles which would otherwise have killed him

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