| Show spy S P y rounded up I 1 by y trap shooter paris there Is a certain united states signal service sergeant up in the tout toul sector at the front who tins lias been able of late to combine a little pleasure with ills his business the aln censor wont let one tell ithe the sergeants name but without revealing any military information it may be said that before the war the serge sergeant atil was rated as one of the top guns at a well known trapshooting trap shooting club in the states there is not much trapshooting trap shooting just now in france they are not cracking away at live birds either but tile the sergeant got his pigeon shooting just the same TJ a 3 particular front in which the ser sergeant genut operate sIs infested with german spies all sorts of things were happening A tramp battery one of those particular guns that whisks up slams a few at the then slides out on the jump found itself being shelled the instant it lined up for a shot again every time there was a troop movement the movement was anticipated by the boche beside that every time a body of our men got together for any purpose whatever the germans shelled them with everything they hall had big guns gung included tipping off the hun now kow the hun use his big guns unless lie knows what hes shooting at how lie he learned however was its oiw pretty evident schia one back of our lines was tipping him off th the sygnal service sergeant was the first to detect how it was done ills squad was repairing signal wires back ol of the trenches the sergeant halted in his work and gazed skywards A pigeon wits was going ovir over his head the sergeant watched it idly calculating its as he stood there how far hed lead it with a 12 gauge then with a sigh he went to laying a wire again A few minutes later the sergeant stopped again another pigeon had risen from the wood but a few minutes later when a third pigeon rose from the wood the former trap shooter tarried no longer A half hour later ha be bolted into the quarterma quartermasters department clicked a salute and spoke hurriedly glimme a shotgun he demanded shotguns are u a regular part of certain quartermasters supplies soon the sergeant might have been seen standing behind a hedgerow gazing toward the nearby wood presently he vas seen to stiffen at the same timo time murmuring pull the 12 gauge swung briefly in fin an tire arc a crack and a crumpled ball of feathers came tumbling toward earth to make sure the sergeant gave it a second barrel just before it hit the earth clever shooting it was pretty clever shooting the bird was high going over fast and quartering kill murmured the sergeant methodically as he retrieved tha fallen game that afternoon the sergeant got tour four other birds Ait attached relied to a leg of each pigeon was wag a code message in german handwriting A short time later a detachment of military police got the owner of the pigeons in his blouse and sabots labots he be looked like ilke tiny any of the peasants tilling the fields behind the lines on being stripped however lie he proved to be a german under officer since his capture tile nightly bombardment of the T Y huts and other places where so soldiers congregate has been more or less hap haphazard bazard the FrItz les still chuck heavy stuff at them but thanks to the ex algeon shot the sergeant they are not scoring as frequently as formerly its bum buin cards bringing in says the lie sr sw geant aint |
