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Show DEMOBILIZING OF ENGLISH WAR PIGEONS AND MEN LONDON, April 17. Demobilization Of English war pigeons and men Who care for them in France has taken place, with the exception of birds and men selected for the army of occupa Uon, About 10,000 birds that had :rved their country faithfully were BOld m .Frame and Belgium and the I proceeds ol sale divided among charitable charit-able institutions of those countries and England in accordance with the wish of tin breeders who had donated the pigeODJ to the British army. Many a man owes hi6 life lo the rap-1d rap-1d flight of a pigeon from a broken down seaplane. In the battle of Me,-slnes Me,-slnes 1200 pigeons were used to carrj imessages, not a single one of which I vent astray. 1 The German piceon service was very Jthorough. A Birmingham medal mak-f'er mak-f'er imitated so perfectly a uiessage-icontainer uiessage-icontainer devised by the enemy thai 1 1 wM possible to send a number of "dud" messages to German lofts with their own captured birds. oo The young lady across the way says one thing we can all agree on is that tbe world Is tired of war and all international inter-national disputes should be settled arbitrarily ar-bitrarily hereafter. |