Show e Wa War Story St London ondon Telegraph Tel ph The Tha Te Duke of Marlborough in Ia a I edging a vote oto of ot thanks thank to the te duchess duches for presenting the te cottagers prizes pries at the I Woodstock Agricultural and ad Horticultural Horticultural tur tural show told an amusing anecdote of ot the Boer war from which he ho has ha recently returned Referring to the te use of hom horn homing hominS lag inS pigeons in time of ot war he mentioned mentone that at the siege of Mafeking Maeng General I expressed a wish that no ladles ladies should remain in the town tow Lady Sarah Sah Wilson who was now well wel known kown I throughout the country went out a dis distance distance tance tace of some seine fifteen miles me and ad being anxious to communicate with wit General Generl she attempted to do so by b I means mea of ot a carrier caie pigeon pigeon He was wa sorry sory to say sy that tat this ts carrier pigeon was not very cr well wel trained traine Lady Sarah Sa wrote a aletter aletter letter Iter and ad dispatched It with wit the pigeon In I the te hope that tat it would fly fy straight into ito Mafeking but instead of that tat it went wen wenand and settled on the top of the te house houe o of the tho Boer commandant who was Investing the te town tow The result was that the Boer Boe com corn w ta ascertained who she was and ana ad where she was and she had ha to explain elain the reason nan why she he was ws near nea |