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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