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 lends enchantment Here is a group examples of war camouflage

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��Even dressing-stations are not immune from Boche attack, and grim experience has taught the advisabiUty of hiding them. This particular station among the moun- tains is hidden by a tent-like piece of can vas. painted to match the surroundings

��The commencement of a camouflage screen is much like the setting up of a "set-piece" on Fourth of July. Here the skeleton of a road screen is going up. Later the canvas will be applied and suitably painted with a self-effacing color scheme. The object of this particular piece of protective coloring is to screen off a road so that troops and supplies can be moved along it while hidden from the enemy's direction by the skilfully painted screen

��This is an absolute work of art. It traverses the Astico Valley, and is truly making very much of a virtue of necessity

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