Show kiriat W AR WORK PIG LuNS UON battlefields AND THE SEA carriers of vital messages ever since battle of marno marne in 1914 U BOAT IS TRAPPED BY BIRD news from trenches taken at full speed to headquarters and supply lines information gained from capter ad pigeons paris at tit the times ternes gate of paris may bo be seen heui it i the work ork or of ou Is I 1 monument to the balloonist and carrier pigeons of what will acknowledge the lie services son ices of carrier pigeons in III lio ito worlds 01 id s war iv of 1014 remains to lie ho sun seen but wol aik oik k timid barrage ban ago fire bursting nd lu rip zai zip of machine gun bullets and tile liu death h sticking destroying gases was as of if enormous 1101 value alue can carrier lor pigeons were re used on oil all tile alio battlefronts but their best work ork wits as on oil the western front front the chall nd to to tile swiss border loi dor and froin ohp ali alps to the adriatic gulf they alic car girled mi ints stages 2190 14 nt lit tile the marne when wn the hulls avero cre driven back by b marshal joffre Ilund hundreds reds were rc used tit in tile battle of tile alie lit in flanders fiandt is when lien tilt and the french halted tile gernian advance ind and alio taley aundo mail tind and frequent trips lit in the lio first battlo battle of kypres ypres lit in tile hip drive dilo on oil tile tl ports when alien tile lip british Hiltl li bronch and topped stopped file germans dp de cmel lit in the lie mini hattle battle tit at tit ho dose close of nf 1914 they illicit 11 in tho alio capture of ree beuve chal challella lelle liv fly the british h ind they alic died lit in numbers nuin bpi alth avith tin the british Biltl sli tit nl ohp second battle of yaks tilt germans advanced toward alie licater canal using for the farst tint time 0 poisonous gils gas again the lip birds did M illint service lilii the fro fience 11 ch trie I 1 to bi al through in III the in hi tile the tall fall of 1915 S an and in III tile whole series if f tile verdun attacks lasting through july oftentimes tile only coln with midi men inan lit in sta alon arp the dors dogs that crept through the barrages find and tile lie carrier pigeons that returned with etli where telephone and wire legg broke down don tind inon inen could not survive ill the storm of shell tire fire it Is 19 recorded that 07 per cent of the messages carried hy by carrier pigeons Iii gions caine safety safely through told of german retreat when alun tho Gern germans inns retired to the hindenburg nin llin denburg line it was vas carrier pig e cons carried forward into the front adva I 1 co I 1 lin r e that brought hack back the news of thi retirement long before telephonic phonic communication could he be es mabll hed through the whole liole area 3 square miles on oil a front of KM miles from arras arms to soissons Sols sons carrier pigeons lilt did their work vork effectively anil and aher tit the americans fo dolight light at chateau thierry cir torcy dorcy Boure bouresches belleau Hille nii wood conde conda en brie bile buzancy Ih Buz iancy ancy Jaul gonno pere en tar Il ligne Cl clergen erges vill ers angron fismer Fr apelle Ju juvigny vIgny st millet argonne forest carrier Til pigeons geong were likewise on the jot job A carrier pigeon allied aided in capturing n 13 boat 10 it and liar in r crew cre A const coast watch atch or cr on one of tho the loneliest parts of the west cst calist lit at sundown sa tile tho tit tip of a periscope nrique and then the conning tower of it U bont boat the r boat stopped ind aln officers and crew viro seen oen on oil deek deck the llie lookout nitin man tied it a note bearing hie information to tile leg of it n carrier ind released it front from ills hla basket tile next net morning n submarine which had run out of gasoline and its officers and crow cre were ero taken to n naval sub base A british patrol boat wit vas 8 acoy ered erad liy by a geranan and tor penned and shelled the skipper tiny hav ing on loard board a carrier pigeon wrote roto a brief inside ines in sige sage telling ills his position and whit what had As the lie boat sank the skipper began for some wreckage to cling to the pigeon went vent up gradually lit in a spiral and tho the eeling it begin began Aillo hooting ting nt at tit lie bird tile skipper drifting on oil the alie wree wreckage rd kige kage gave gae UP ill hope when ulion lie ile saw sav the bird hall had been lilt hit twenty miles nan it iK wever weer it lighted on oil it patrol ling destroyer its silver gray plumage specked speck ch td it with alth blood its tall feathers t wt lot away till ono one of its wings angs wounded ed ylie tilt conini andIng allicer read the ines message sage tile destroyer desti oer was as rustled nt at full speed to the indicated find wittily tareo quarters of tin till linn hour front tit alio 1 glnn I ill lint t the pigeon was ai sent ot off tin tho ruid crow CK of the patrol vero picked up tit where they clung citing tu to tile ho N v reck age spy with Pl pigeons geons an american nt lit ilear in III writing of it tin tile cle advil kadunce live told tills this incident As AR I 1 returned to ali alir city walking sulking along the file ither aleuse ac I 1 saw sa ol 01 who ho oblivious of wat and its wa mis dangling ills legs over ol 01 tile water nir tind peacefully fishing the battle lit tin tile air which lio ito must have biad not moved him the certainty that file flerilla ni wore io billy it few tu lillias awny lind had not concerned alilin HP he sillo ked ills pipe and placidly enst ills line it was mils soothing it to over overstrained strained nerves to set no that clini chat lint but it wits uis only it few fr hours later that lint I 1 learned it gernian spy arpy hit lind been arrested uy its lie posed aa ns it i etli a creel full of carrier another story stoby rends reads in tilt alif eol cowl habit and tonsure that the in monk it young oiivia mail told ills his beads aboard tile train ruin bound for ant verp and till it vo onn inan iiii hardly more than it garl kept her pcs on oil tile mail of prayers site studded on oil tilt li devotion whit holcli ills fingers front to deando of tile tho lony long well worn iiii rosary chilt hung front the ills lint lilt tit nl I 1 its ills lips illis appen appended red to isiom lit in supplication tile ainan wol liall eliut lio lie lind find balled to n kiss tile cross tit anpo ns spy V the gli gill I hissed into tin the face n of f the alleged in nn all instant two to guarda lind sell holad 7 ed the man tind inid rushed ailin down don tit alip train corridor coo idor the examine I 1 the lie dinall vicker itkor hasket behind in tilt the ant at lifting the ho lid ild ito ilic found three pigeons ons get german pigeons ons A news dispatch brielly summarized such a ind find talus A C german trawler avus us li by it i british warship defir tin the orkney islands to the north of scotland she Is 18 believed to have been engaged in spying spi liiK us its carrier were ero round found on oil loin board d Ite ference lins has albondy been ninde to the number tit of carried buck back to the alic french lines by 1 carrier pigeons in the defense of verdun Vir dun A pigeon captured by tile the feretich conveyed tills this information the rolling nio fire of tile eti enemy eniY alth with guns gull s of the heaviest caliber Is midi mich that sectors S 0 and 11 II tire aro to it great extent leveled the garrison including that of sector V Is ned completely sonic some of it has been at obliged ged to fall back on oil tile H eighty third and 11 ninety eighth alch which also I 1 ind had to retire sector V von Il atins avas as sub ceded to such liidi lire fire that its observation P post at was ns put out of order all sorties corties tire arc being bombarded and one Is occupied constantly lit in replacing hem the bat battalion tallon asks its immediate relief this lils evening by fresh troops it call tight no longer signed hillst STEIN IME ClIT carrier pigeons tell ell headquarters of the pro gresK of 11 bottle alere la Is it 11 typical topical report leport tile ho french army fought along ailing the lic alene it immediately appeared that the lio desti destruction notion of tin the 1 I lerin tin defeno debella de fellA had lieen been accomplished gitil its much til tiers rs us its could be 10 hoped for lit in so a country by il it in ill ltv 0 o 1 hy carrier pigeon mul and other that the flie do in ili notto motto on oil alln fie french left neair luul been lit i carried inlall mid that tit lit the center lort fort was ns taken at village had annl beell oc li pled tile lio prisoners in loners numbered it and till alic french Ini Kli looi nult troops were CIP nd ad across tile central to avard ciril soll mill and mont molit quarry at 1030 tile tieni no i was ns that they were io lit the north 1101 hi of till tho further spur of plateau and in ili a quarry yards west est of tit alio fort foit ily by 2 if it ili the villages of Ignoll and with sev erill dal neighboring quarries qun lying on the northern edge 0 of the ainne aisne bills lind lad apell occupied HB tilt furthest point tit n libin tind represented ni fill of 0 ono one oile halt milts ellade in I 1 tile face of the host best reli laining troops ot of tile lie crimin aided by camouflage avidly anany carrier pigeons changed habits of spiraling eluding it a dangerous practice tind and learned to fly lindt back and then forward tit nt nil all ItI tIld 0 comparatively low aided birds considerably lit li getting back to 0 o their loft carrying with ahli them ines sages crotti troops in ili front at t fort foit viiu lit in tho battle of Veril tin the crown princes briny lind ind it sPeC lill group of 1101 shooting don own pl lil alkons Kons geong us is they left k ft the alic fort ali anil story or oc verdun it wis was lit at tit t sixteen miles 11 akon Oil lost and re retaken taken wireless and lind bolig to exist no being could cross tilt the tvr ruin tin the wits ns in des ilerd of communicating alth elm rear suddenly the glasses s re rc vented calad 11 log dog crouching on oil its bolly crawling tile Iltis lies and in 11 illon moment lent of lull leaping forward on 01 its ifko k yag w it 11 pannier bearer and the dog cattle tind prayers were cre offered na fig ilie liu beama flattened out here and there in the debris for shelter another lull and tile the log dog len leaped tiled forward und and at dinst it scampered into aus wl t 4 hu pigeons rare lit in tho the pannier on tile logs doffs collar wits tills this message we rel levi you iou by attack on oil frold terre 3 p in 1 stop tile tho german battery on our left hero tire are the elements clOnen ts for pointing was ns tile the written ines message sage of tile tho commandant sent seat back by ono one of tile tho pigeons another momentary lull and the pigeon Is released release dog and pig oon con faithful and distinguished friends of mail have wc done one their work urk to savo save civilization |