Beaver County News | 1916-05-26 | Page 6 | Pigeons as Photographers

Pigeons as Photographers. The pigeon of war, though first cousin cou-sin of the dove of peace, has beceme an important factor in modern warfare. war-fare. In this war he has acquired, it is said, special value as a photographer, a messenger and a spy. Equipped with a camera peculiarly designed for his purpose, he can dodge shells and aeroplanes and penetrate the enemy's lines until their innermost secrets are recorded by his lens. The tiny camera is fastened under the bird's body, where It will not impede im-pede flying. Its shutter works automatically. auto-matically. The birds are trained as ecxtinary carrier pigeons in fact they are still used to some extent to carry messages mes-sages but it is as scouts that they have become indispensable to practically prac-tically every army in Europe. The French have made the most thorough tests of the war pigeons' efficiency and their conclusions have resulted in the addition of many automobile pigeon houses to the general army equipment.