Paris. October 30.—(By Mail.)—The dyes for the horizon blue uniforms of the French army, substituted for the old dark blue and red since the war began, have been furnished by a German firm, according to the Oeuvre Francaise. The matter with which the material for the famous red trousers of the French infantry were dyed had long before the war been replaced by German aniline dyes, but it was not suspected until lately that the Germans could be interested in the horizon blue dye that has been furnished by a house in Basel, Switzerland, with a name that was partly of French and partly of German consonance. The Oeuvre Francaise now declares that all the rights and patents of that firm have been owned for a long time by a firm in Berlin.
The Birmingham Age-Herald, Birmingham, AL, November 18, 1917