| Show er enal a m messengers horning 00 P ai e s pe per t 1 1 t 1 T 1 le f bom 0 n 1 danger 1 71 waid persan vi rat ous u S za duty y 0 on battle a t I 1 e fro front vt z pigeons proved their value for military purposes alter after the war broke out T they hey did work cork which litch the wireless telegraph sail telephone could not dad lateler I 1 do under it certain lot cond fl GO aloin thus the pigeons bovel hare furnished shad a means of coin muni unfelt cation ion between the he headquarters and ad the swift ift flying airplanes and id za maids ids lanea abe when other athar methods were firon impossible afele Ans ansec rc will not at be behind other na I 1 I 1 lions 11 A 3 in ill this s mat matter ill declares declare a vr writer I 1 in the Is pew lorb sun A s soon after his affa 1 in fran france general su 1 bhag per clug cabled bird be home for or map coops pigeons PIX ro and ad a staff if of men to take inre am of them through the Anor rican racing pigeon union rd which has a membership of more mom than 1800 1 racing ing place pigeon ancl fanciers arrangements were quickly made for the first shipment D C base buscal of at Ri verdale md kid and J L carney ot of pittsburgh pa both expert rating racing homer breeders bleeders bre eders etere an appointed lieu truant tenants and went want across aeneas with a staff ot of mm man and the first batch of pigeons in the early part of 1917 prank frank J griffin an enthusiastic racing homer reader breeder of new hachette Ito cbelle induced the at fort fell benr car hla his home to I 1 let at him eel it up a loft left there here nod and equip it for testing purposes the trials trial proved so that this vernal slon elon was extended and with fill the cooperation of tila his fe fellow b mom members beral in the homing pigeon clubs cl A bs he net act up and equipped eight lot tofts 1 containing from to 25 birds each in various other long forts along the I 1 a atlantic ora draw on pigeons pigeon bese me most at of 1 these place pigeons 11 were supplied led by members of who what W was at 1 that hot time if A the new near york concourse association which has since face become amalgamated with the united homing pigeon concourse ame representing about 2 lofts lefts which control approximately IT pig pigeons an fn following stift general perching pembina a message mr griffin was commissioned a major with direct supervision of the newly nearly created closeted pigeon section of the aj c gnal no carrus with headquarters la in the achl chief f signal office in W washington adint certain anny officials throughout the country were designated to carry ont oat the work am botany of getting lofts lefts a tind chiso pigeons for far this new branch of the service nealton fia alons were a quickly opened card with the raring homing edg pigeon dubs being a trained racer is m r of homer pit pl eon A 11 major joe griffin rec a the necessity of setting getting onal only pg pigeons whose parents had proved their worth on the road read and all 11 sanctions collectors have been in to issue leg hard bands only to such breeden breeders bre eders as are known to be mem bills bers of some nome of the racing mg homer club clubs and a have b birds I 1 ads with kith records record that ion can ke be verified t to breed bread from this rule 1 has bre been strictly adhered to since ia BO much depends depend on the airriess fir riess of the pigeon that no cliance chance es can be taken to sell pigeon at coat COAL the th government has agreed to ro par 82 apiece 1 am to tor each pigeon abid amell accepted athla I 1 is regarded by homing pig pigeon men as low I 1 price 1 i I since of fr some I 1 f the b par ants could tit not at b be purchased rr AA for f or less lens than 20 to r 2 5 apiece and young atin from fill such inch blooded blended stock sell for IS 3 4 R and ad 1 cen in h higher prices r ims the pr price of 2 was or arrived nt t through cough fig ming bring the cost cast of am raising a young rig pi ton and the ran fanciers era patriotically agreed t to it about pigeons pigeon have bc boicu shipped hipped A across to france ann ad a cammall ot of nearly trained pigeon pig A men ha has s e since at nee gone to take charge of them T the h a government has decided to and equip lofta III at sll 11 the bamps tamps in the country so a as to familiar or I 1 ice the signs signal corps recto recruits 11 IN with the new a service 1 I the th rea pigeons are to be used when be atmospheric c conditions diclem 1 in with the electrical and wig wagging sagging modes maides at f dannald M MM M 0 TV TW on the battlefields the pigeons are cared for fop in ID mobile mobil COOTS coops these resemble the ordinary moving van red are set about a mile apart dart fr from fl ke to do twenty miles mile in the rear mat of if the first fill line trenches tren chea in 1 them are am nesting boxes bos ob observation don traps at ator age room for feed and other oilier accas arc a series and accod accommodations for one or two to som men who are am on an duty ring a bell on entering the pigeons photon enter through a loor door obstructed acted by hob bob wires alm these hang loosely ely and ad will twice in 1 but not at out mat when a bird enters the movement of the its bets off rn an electric bell and the th attendant catches the pigeon and takes its t the he ines message sage train from an aluminum cup cap shaped receptacle it ached to one a of I 1 it its imi begs major griffin at the annual meeting of the amerl american 11 A racing pigeon union said mid that thin bof of the messages that have been forwarded by homing pigeons fro from ill the trenches at the front th through ough barrage A fin in 1 attacks ach going over the top in r cavalry try charges home and ad in lot antan try ch charges arc 87 07 per par cent at had bad safety safely reached headquarters he urged the members to start their birds breeding at once this was waa 1 in december they usually ily do not at start min until apfl the middle of february the pigeon men acted on the suggestion it on and are now prepared red to keep up a steady supply ripply of if bird for far government use the homing pigeon Is a swift as well as a sure messenger IN lien hen traveling with the dmd md it will ofil fly at the rate of more than sixty miles arouca an hour floor and against the wind at from thirty to thirty five 11 miles an hour waca it liberated berated the file homer holes pig pigeon usually circles around the spot gred grad natty rising until it recognizes some mine landmark old and I 1 once a it has scented the direction is IN off in a direct line to it its home the ibe intelligence of thew these birds bird has be been shown boom 1 in the trenches ahre they have halt Is learned ed that to circle adds add danger to their lives it is never any too safe at these places of liberation and the trained homer does not rise rie any higher than is necessary ne cery ce ry to get its hearing bearing usually alv ing direct directly y to the rear without ascending more ahn n few fall fe feet I 1 above the ground this 1 la not the general genera procedure precede of homing burning pigeons the tendency of it the bird birds all released 1 in mesa facea at home being to tittle circle sometimes time for an hour over the spot patu where liberated new new to germany by bird the united states I 1 Is not behind 1 pigeon racing it has han something ilk like homing pigeon fanciers in B bel I 1 km edum pig pigeon racing S was long the na oi ID sport art it ha has been reported th that t a as many y as pigeons have r been I 1 1 I at one time in the araud national r races re in ho england a race I 1 containing fr from to lo 10 waa a considered a common man occurrence th the english gov r rement ment da shortly after the As war r began that in formation was bein being carried to the so en g id enty emy by a nae method flold which ich it t could old not at detect for a long time fla finally y it was learned that german subject subjects had bad established lofts of M in england where here birds were kept for far the 1 express pr pulp purpose as of carrying ores messages to a germany german Y T the be authorities thereupon ordered all 11 pigeons liberated and put under ii government alent control contral all that returned to DO their lofta a ftc the supervision mer homing pigeons in england now to Is po severe mere that an 0 owner iner cannot cannot take even one bird into the th A street ti beet I 1 or tr anifer it to another person v a police permit t t some of the war perform performances of homing pigeons as recorded in recent issues of english pigeon papers are am interesting during december a patrol am smack it released a pigeon ns as it we was hinc torpedoed dord by a german submarine the ene crew was A floundering I 1 in the water and crix clinging tug to urecka wreckage ge th the germans saw the bird and wounded it ft with a rifle shot it BBS as not brought down however and twelve melve miles away alay landed a on A the deck of another patrol smack with five flight feathers missing and nearly ex hausted bausted the b bird rd knew ince it could not reach land and sought this place of safety fety the message the pigeon bore imle gave the Ille location atio ot of the wrecked patrol boat and tin the captain of the vessel on which it landed succeeded in reaching the spot snot in time to save every man another story Is that the pilot of a scup seaplane lans doing special work rork in the flanders section encountered a num ber of enemy planes he released one pig pigeon com stating his location and asking help A minute later inter another pigeon arrived well at h headquarters telling that thai b his is took tank had bad been destroyed and ad ask it leg ing that fighters be sent seat quickly to his hl old aid eighteen minutes star later another bird arrived from another patrol scap seaplane lam announcing that it had been shot down and that the pilots pilot companion had bad been killed and that he be thought in his marabl machine would 0 float oat to for r wine some time ine boelen that s aa a in the end dof of the messages two vesala seaplanes sea planes were quickly do de I 1 spat ched to the 19 location thirl given and adi be cal small boats boat put out this tn I 1 fort formation ration could not net have been con lyd by any other men means it was learned later later that german destroyers destroyer had appeared on the scene can mut and that they had probably rescued 11 the pilot who h had bee been clinging to his dIa disabled bled plane piano as when lom relief list arrived the ma A chine to atas f found d aad ad the file ina I na de AY st were era scan 1 speeding pending away y |
