Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Troops Defy Tropical Heat. [ARTICLE]

Troops Defy Tropical Heat.

Recent experiments by the British government in India with ultra-violet rays, says the Electrical Experimenter, are interesting, not only to army men but to scientists, In the experiments an under officer of the English army was completely clothed |n garments which had been previously treated to withstand the ultra-violet rays. It was found that he was able to stay in the wnn of midsummer for hours without feeling disturbance or inconvenience in any way. Upon this and other experiments the English government has adopted this method for the protection of its Indian troops against ths raw ages of tropical sunlight