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Show BEES FOR WAR MESSENGERS Their Employment Is Said to Have Gone Far Beyond the Range j of Probability. A secret long cherished in the Brit-, Brit-, lsh war department has Just been discovered dis-covered the use of bees as messengers. messen-gers. No longer will the aide de camp ' pur his staggering horse through shot and shell to carry the message to (he front Instead he will don his gloves and mask, and, going to the portable beehive back of headquarters, seize cne of the faithful little Insects, and aend the well-trained , messenger through the air. ; Whoever possesses a receiving outfit Can read the secrets of the wireless; one can cut the wires of the ordinary telegraph, and the pigeon does not always al-ways esco the bullet Therefore, other means have been sought In America, the general staff dreams of using as a dispatch bearer the bee. f The bee, like the carrier pigeon, guided by Us marvelous Instinct returns re-turns to the hlvo from wherever he niny be liberated. Tiny dispatches, which can be deciphered with the magnifying mag-nifying glass, can, he attached to its. breast But something better still has been found. By . an ingenious process the wings of the tiny insect are sensitized, and by means of microscopic photography photog-raphy the message Is imprinted thereon. there-on. , . |