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Show GREAT WAR WORK OF PIGEONS ON BATTLEFIELDS AND THE SEA Carriers of Vital Messages Ever Since Battle of Marne in 1914. U-BOAT IS TRAPPED BY BIRD News From Trenches Taken at Full Speed to Headquarters and Supply Lines Information Gained From Captined Pigeons. Paris. At Hie Terries gate of I'nris may bo seen a memorial, the work, of Bartholin, on winch Is Inscribed: "Monument to the ltalloonisls and Currier Cur-rier Pigeons of 1S70." What memorial will acknowledge the services of carrier car-rier pigeons in the world's war of 1914-191.S 1914-191.S remains to lie seen, but their work amid barrage (Ire, bursting shrapnel, Hie zip-zip of machine-gun bullets and the death destroying pisos was of enormous value. Carrier pigeons were used on nil the but Helmuts but their best work was on Hie western front, from the channel chan-nel to the Swiss border and from the Alps to the Adriatic gulf. They carried car-ried messages ut Hie Marno, when the Huns were driven hack by Marshal .TolTre. Hundreds were used in the buttle of the Yser, In Flanders, when Hie Belgians and Hie French baited the Cerman advance; and they made many and frequent trips in the first ! battle of Vpres, in the drive on the channel ports when Hie British, French ! and Belgians stopped the Germans de- clsively in Hie final battle at the close of 1014. They aided In the capture of ' Neuve Chnpelle by the British and they died in numbers with the British Tommies at the second battle of Ypres, when the Germans advanced toward the Yser canal using for the first time ' poisonous pas. Again Hie birds did valiant service when the French tried to break through in the Champagne In the fall of 1015, and in the whole series of the Verdun attacks lasting through July, oftentimes the only communications com-munications with men in advanced stations sta-tions wore the dogs that crept through the barrages and the carrier pigeons 1 that returned with messages. Where telephone and wireless broke down, and men could not survive the storm of shell fire. It is recorded that 97 per cent of the messages carried by carrier pigeons came safely through. Told of German Retreat. When the Germans retired to the "Hindenburg line," it was carrier pigeons pig-eons carried forward into the front advance lines that brought back the news of the retirement long before telephonic communication could be established. es-tablished. Through the whole area. 1,300 square miles, on n front of 100 miles from Arrns to Soissons, carrier pigeons did their work effectively. And wherever the Americans fought, at Onnligny, Chateau-Thierry, Torcy, Bouresohes, Belleau wood, Conde-en-Brie, Buzaney. Jaulgonne, Fere-en-Tar-denols, Bligne, Cierges, Villors-Argron, Fismes, Frapelle, Bazoches, Juvigny, St. Mihiel, Argonne forest carrier specked with blood, Its tail feathers shot away, and one of its wings wounded. wound-ed. The commanding oliieer read Hie j message, the destroyer was rushed at: full speed to the place indicated, and within three-quarters of an hour from the time Hint the pigeon was sent 01T. the officers and crew of the patrol were picked up when; they clung to till! wreckage. Spy With Pigeons. An American al I. lege, in writing of the Gorman advance, told this incident inci-dent : "As I returned to the city, walking along the River Mouse, I saw one who, oblivious of war and Its alarms, was dangling his logs over the water and peacefully fishing. The battle in the air, which he must have witnessed, .had not moved him. The certainty that the Germans were only a few miles away had not concerned lilm. He smoked his pipe and placidly cast his line. It was soothing to overstrained nerves to see that chap, hut It was only a few hours later that I learned a German spy had been arrested as lie posed as a fisherman, with a creel full of carrier pigeons." Another story reads: "In the cowl, habit and tonsure that mark the monk a young man told his beads aboard the train bound for Antwerp. Ant-werp. And a woman, hardly more than a girl, kept her eyes fastened on the man of prayers. She studied on the devotion with which his fingers slipped from decade to decade of the long, well-worn rosary that hung from the cincture about his waist. But, although al-though his lips appeared to move in humble supplication, the woman saw-that saw-that he bad failed to kiss the cross. The lapse was significant. "'Spy!' the girl hissed into the face of the alleged ascetic. In an Instant two guards had seized the man and rushed him down the train corridor. The woman examined the small wicker basket behind in the seat. Lifting the lid, she found three pigeons." Get German Pigeons. A news dispatch briefly summarized such a find thus : "A German trawler was captured by a British warship near the Orkney islands to the north of Scotland. She is believed to have been engaged in spying, as carrier pigeons were found on board." Reference has already been made to the number of messages carried back to the French lines by carrier pigeons In the defense of Verdun. A pigeon captured by the French conveyed this information : "The rolling fire of the enemy with guns of the heaviest caliber is 'Such that sectors S., C, and H. are to a great extent leveled. The garrison, including in-cluding that of sector V., Is disorganized disorgan-ized completely. Some of It has been obliged to fall back on the Eighty-third and Ninety-eighth regiments, which also had to retire. "Sector V. (von Itaun's) was subjected sub-jected to such 'fire that its observation post was put out of order. All sorties are being bombarded and one is occupied occu-pied constantly in' replacing them. ' "The battalion asks Its immediate relief this evening by fresh troops. lb can fight no longer. "(Signed) "kikst lieutenant stein- P.KECHT." Carrier pigeons tell headquarters of the progress oT a battle. Here is a. typical report when the French army fought along the Aisne: "It immediately appeared that the destruction of the German defense had been accomplished with as much success as could bo hoped for in so diflicult a country. By 7:)0 a. m. we learned by carrier pigeon and other means that, the Chateau de la Motte 011 the French left near Allemanl had been carried, and that at the center 'Malmaison Fort was taken. At S:4.rr Allemanl village had been occupied, the prisoners numbered a thousand, and the French assault troops were advancing ad-vancing across the central plateau toward to-ward Ynitdesson and Mont Parnasso quarry. At 10::i0.the news was that they were at the north of Hill 17.'!. the fur: her spur of Malmaison plateau, and in a quarry 220 yards west of the, fort. By 2:4o p. 111. the villages of Chavignon and Vuudesson, with several sev-eral neighboring quarries lying on the northern edge of the Aisne hills, bad boon occupied. Chavignon was the furthest point contemplated in th plan and represented an advance of one and one-half miles made in the: face of the best remaining troops of the German empire." Aided by Camouflage. While many carrier pigeons changed their habits of spiraling. finding it a dangerous practice and learned to fly back and then forward at an altitude, comparatively low, camouflage aided birds considerably in getting back to their loft carrying with them messages from troops in front. At Fort Vuux, in the battle of Verdun, Hie crown prince's army had a special group of men shooting down carrier pigeons as-they as-they left the fort. And another story of Verdun. It was at Tliiaumont, sixteen times taken, lost and retaken. Wireless ami telephones had long ceased to exist. No human being could cross the terrain. ter-rain. The commandant was in desperate des-perate need of communicating with the rear. Suddenly the glasses revealed re-vealed a dog, crouching on its belly, crawling through the flashes, and in a moment of temporary lull leaping forward. On its back was a pannier. Nearer and nearer the dog came, and prayers were involuntarily offered as the beast flattened out here and there in the debris for shelter. Another lull and the dog leaped forward and at last it scampered into Tliiaumont wit.', the pigeons safe in the pannier. On the dog's collar was this message : "We relieve you by attack on Froid-terre, Froid-terre, 3 p. m." "Stop the German battery on our left. Here are the elements for pointing." point-ing." was the written message of the commandant sent back by one of the pigeons. Another momentary lull and the pigeon is released. Dog and pigeon, pig-eon, faithful and distinguished friends of man, have done their work to save civilization. pigeons were nKewise on tne jon. A carrier pigeon aided in capturing a U-boat and her crew. A coast watcher watch-er on one of the loneliest parts of the west coast at sundown saw the tip of a periscope arise and then the conning tower of a U-boat. The underwater boat stopped, and tlu officers and crew, were seen on dock. The lookout man tied a note bearing the information to the leg of a carrier pigeon and released It from his basket. The next morning n Gorman submarine, which had run out of gasoline, and its officers and crew were taken to a naval sub-base. A British patrol boat was discovered discov-ered by a German submarine and torpedoed tor-pedoed and shelled. The skipper, having hav-ing on board a carrier pigeon, wrote a brief message, telling his position and what had happened. As the boat sank, the skipper began swimming for some wreckage to cling to. The pigeon went up gradually In a spiral, and the Germans, seeing it, began shooting at the bird. The skipper, drifting on the wreckage, gave up hope when he saw the bird had been hit. . Twenty miles away, however, it lighted on a patrol- j ling destroyer, its silver-gray plumage |