Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-04

communication with the friends on the other side
of the enemy.
Homng pigeons have been used from time i'm.
memorial. and they also were used at Santiago.
Today "a different condition exists. As the Ger
mans were sweeping down on Paris the operator
in Eiffel tower whispered through the very air the
Germans were breathing to convey information to
st Petersburg or 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 interfere
with the wireless message it went its way.
One OF the most wonderful developments of the
wireless telegraphy at the opening of the Eu.
ropean when It became possible to talk all
the way from Berlin to Long island Germany
talked across the British feet to her ships
sailing the Atlantic and warned them of the
sudden tremor
The only way stop the wireless de-
stroy the operator and he thousands OF miles
away. In last wires 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 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
all depended more 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-
ble for German soldier fighting his way through
Belgium to talk to a German soldier defending
Alsace. 1t made It possible for soldier at Brus-
sells to shout of victory back to Berlin with
out instant's delay.
1t made it possible for the French and British
TO keep In communication with each other and
map out line of defense when the Germans
hurlng their mighty hosts against them.
Marconi had already made himself famous be-
fore the broke out His invention
of the greatest boons TO humanity because it
saved lives aboard ship in time of sea horror It
brought rescue to the distressed and expedited
shipping. From instrument OF humanity and
peace 1t sprang to an instrument of war and ter
Tor
Like the pigeon dove. the personfcation OF
peace, il became instrument of
Perhaps next to the wireless stations. the most
efficient messengers of the hOming pig
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
for small detachments to communicate
with their headquarters nor could they want bet
ter.
On the fields of Europe the flights of the birds
are in most instances short that they do not
have to stop for rest, thus preventing the
sages from falling into the hands of the enemy.
A pigeon in its flight high 1t is almost
invisible to the naked eye, thus it necessates
the use of high power guns to bring it to the
ground. And any man who ever makes such
shot can well call it a miracle
The king of England and the emperor of Ger
many well other rulers of European nations.
have their flying kits, and in time of peace
they their birds in with birds belong
ing TO their subjects. The crowned heads deem
this royal sport
a bird equipped for flying with message is
encased in bottleike tube. the shape of its
body.
spy puts his message in his pocket, proceeds
on his mission quickly writes his discoveries on
email bits OF paper and places them in tube