Show English Pussies I Aided Britons in France 1 J I Torn Tons cold and Tabby Helped Soldiers Meet 11 Gas Attacks and Iud Drove Rats Out o of 0 Trenches If War ar Office ice Fails to Reveal Feline Army's Fate nv Ill HODER Universal Service Ser Staff Correspondent Lo London don May Hay Ia 3 3 There's Theres no D. D S. S O. O for Jor pussies In the BrUsh army list nor yet H a a V. V C. C But hear no now how ho an army rm of or unc unconsidered cat cats from London town h helped do their bit forthe to for the empire and democracy A t little more than two t years ear ago o an advertisement ad appeared In ono one of or the London papers reading this Wo way Common cats wanted wanted any any nUmb number r. r Deliver Dell to Charles Harris Bird store Bethnal Green road Of or cour course the common common people who read this ad nay may na have ha thou thought ht It strange for a n bird hird store to bo be advertising advertising adver er th for tor cats eat In nn any nn number but whatever er their private ate opinions th the cats were Mr lr Harris Harrus or of Bethnal Green road rapidly began acquiring acquiring ac aC- ac- ac I quiring a collection of or homeless tabbies tabbies tabbies tab tab- bies and tommies such as a'S ol old London perhaps never had seen gathered in one place before Anything tny thing that wore fur and a n rebellious expression of or countenance countenance countenance coun coun- was acceptable to Mr Ir Harris Barris Man In Contract I For Jor he was WOoS let Into part of or trio the secret I you ou know lie Ile had an n army contract for tor cats plain Just lust Just plain cats Kven nm the thelon lon suffering long Mr Harris the bird birdman man of or Beth al Green road did not know what t the to cats were wanted for for tor- only that cats eats were wanted No 0 J- J Englishman Eng Eng- ns- ns lishman much less leas a bird man o of Bethnal Bethnal Bethnal Beth- Beth nal Green stops to inquire the reason r I I I why wh when government speaks His only to do O or die Perhaps Mr Harris Barris almost t died be beI before before be- be I fore ore his contract for tor cats was wasI duly completed Had he done so tho the thoI I sympathies of or his nel neighbors would I have been his unqualifiedly As As it was eVer every da day or so o a a. lar largo o arm army truck I drew up before Mr r Harris' Harris place of or business and sundry cr very lively bags I I of merchandise 6 were transferred from his store to the Interior o of the truck With man many muffled protests from tho the bags baJ's It sho should ld be recorded in the interests In Interests Interests In- In I o of sober r history Well the cats cat went from Bethnal Green road direct to the British lines on the western front frontIn via In Boulogne and nd Am Amiens ens There the they were distributed up and down the British lines JInes Pit Iu iu Case oro loc Not because becaUse the loved ed but that the cats loved lo gas Jas less leas I It t had been discovered by sonic some sharp gas as officer In iu the forces that long lont before the presence of the tho chemicals In the air all could bo be detected b by mere man Old Moll lu had bad d her back up and anti tall tail clubbed clubbe and was UK crying for tor revenge 3 against the boche l Even Kven Ven the th sensitive canary bird savior sa of or man many a biped in submarines was no surer fire against gas as than the despised pussy Therefore the British lines from rom Ypres to th the Champagne gave Ga homes to Lon London's ons mobilized felines As s a product by-product of oC their m military III tar service the lady and gentleman man volunteers In fur kept down the tho rat population re remarkably re- re marl abb But Dut what has become of oC these and and their Inevitable ine sons and daughter daugh- daugh ter of oC veterans since since the armistice Ala laR the war office Is silent on that score Is it possible that a Franco- Franco British cat en entente ten to already has been concluded with privileges of French I citizenship for tor trio tho offspring of trench heroes and heroes and heroines s I |