Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 16 | Fugitive Swarms of Bees Driven by War into Streets of Paris

MM M M- M M t I FUGITIVE SWARMS OF I II 1 I I I t BEES DRIVEN BY V WAR AR j II I j I I I INTO STREETS OF PARIS PARISi PARISI I 1 I i Paris July 24 24 Twice within a I week the business quarter Quart r of or the 1 RUG flue de Ie Chateau un has boon Invaded In ad I ed b by strange refugees from northern north north- north 1 I tern ern France France swarms of ot bees beeR which I following their queen began to j hang In a cluster from one of ot the I J lamp posts Presumably the they had I been driven from t their former home home by the ceaseless hurricane of ot fire I 1 smoke and explosion I t When the first visit occurred the I police sent for a scientist from the tho I J zoo who arrived with tho the usual I equipment for enticing bees Into a a. al I 1 hive but put the visitors turned a deaf deat I I 1 ear car ar to the time-honored time wiles and I I stung a a. the tho too curious nub nub- pub pub- I lie lic Then the firemen were sent for 1 I but It was wag finally decided that lit it t would bo be better to suffocate the he I be bees s t than an to scatter them by means i of ota a stream of water Accordingly I j 1 they thoy were subjected to to a poisonous gas gaa which reduced them to Insensibility I blUt and enabled tho specialist from the tho zoo to sweep them away In Ina ina I a 1 bucket Two days dayn later another swarm arrived arrived arrived ar ar- I rived In the same place and were wore similarly dealt with l i j 1