The work is founded on the theory of the Indian who
painted himself so he would be lost in the desert when
hiding from animals or pursuers. The trick is being
used to conceal outposts and observers who are sta-
tioned at dangerous points. Many false posts have
been constructed for observers. I have been informed
in complete detail of how an outpost that proved of
great service was substituted overnight for a dead horse
in No Man's Land. The dead horse lay between the
lines on a bit of rising ground. During the night the
dead horse was removed and the sculptors made a fake
horse, which was put out with a man inside. His busi-
ness was to remain there during the day and come back
to the lines at night to report. As his post was above
the German trenches, he was able to keep close watch
on the enemy's movements at that point. — ^Ernest
Peixotto, New York Evening Sun, May, 1917.
CAMOUFLEITR

Recent orders of the Government to the engineering
department of the United States Army to stop enlisting
men as camoufleurs in a sx)ecial camouflage division ends
a chapter in military camouflage in America. A little
more than a year ago it was doubtful whether or not



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the army would have any great use for camoufleurs
in the forces abroad. By the recent decree military
camouflage is made an essential in every regiment, like
engineering, trench digging, map making, road building,
and sharpshooting. There are now, according to
miUtary camoufleurs in New York City, about 500
expert camoufleurs abroad with the Pershing forces.
