The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-12-05
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communication with the frlends on the otner size
of the enemy.
Homing pigeons have been used from time i'm
memorial and they also were used at Santiago.
Today different condition exists AS the Ger
mans were sweeping down on Paris the operator
In Eifel tower whispered through the very air the
Germans were breathing to convey information to
St Petersburg Petrograd.
The swish Of the wireless was unstoppable. The
Spaniards shot down the American signal men on
the embankments in front Of Santiago, but the
rifle bullets from the Germans could not interfere
with the wireless message as it went on its way.
One Of the most wonderful developments Of the
wireless telegraphy came at the opening Of the Eu-
ropean war when 1t became possible to talk all
the way from Berlin to Long island. Germany
talked across the British feet to her own ships
sailing the Atlantic and warned them of the
sudden tremor
The only way to stop the wireless was to de-
stroy the operator and he was thousands OF miles
away. In our last war wires we're stretched all
over the fields back of the fighting men. Dis
patchers carried word from colonel to general
where there had not been time to string the
wires.
In this war wires too have been stretched on
the fields, pigeons still have carried messages,
dispatchers have galloped back and forth, but in
addition to all these messengers of war the fight
ers all depended more on the invention of Mar
conf the great wireless telegraph.
The wireless telegraph has proved its value
right on the field of battle. The man in the front
ranks, or the outpost miles from the headquarters
could place himself in instant communication with
his chief. The wireless telegraph made it posi-
BILE for q German soldier fighting his way through
Belgium to talk to a German soldier defending
Alsace 1t made 1t possible for a soldier at Brus-
sells to shout news Of victory back to Berlin with
out an instants delay.
1t made 1t possible for the French and British
to keep in communication with each other and
map out a new line of defense when the Germans
we're hurting their mighty hosts against them.
Marconi had already made himself famous be-
fore the war broke out. His invention was one
Of the greatest boons to humanity because it
saved lives aboard ship in time of sea horror 1t
brought rescue to the distressed and expedited
shipping. From an instrument Of humanity and
peace 1t sprang to an instrument Of war and ter
ror.
Like the pigeon or dove, the personifcation of
peace, II became an instrument of war.
Perhaps next to the wireless stations, the most
efhcient messengers Of war the homing pig
cons. These birds, the wisest Of their kind. are
employed to great advantage in English, French,
German, Austrian, Italian Russian and Japanese
armies Military authorities hold there is no bet
ter means for small attachments to communicate
with their headquarters nor could they want bet
ter
On the fields of Europe the flights of the birds
re In most instances short that they do not
have to stop for a rest thus preventing the mes
sages from falling into the hands of the enemy
pigeon in its fight scars so high il is almost
Invisible to the naked eye, thus it necessitates
the use of high power guns to bring it to the
ground. And any man who ever makes such a
shot we'll call It miracle
" The king Of England and the emperor of Ger
many, as we'll other rulers of European nations,
have their own flying kits, and in time of peace
fer irdS in yyitb ;rdc
ing to their subjects. The crowned heads deem
this royal sport.
bird equipped for flying with a message is
encased in bottleike tube. the shape of its
body.
A spy puts his message in his pocket proceeds
on his mission, quickly writes his discoveries on
small bits Of paper and places them in tube