Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-12-04

communication with the friends on the other side
of the enemy.
Homing pigeons have been used from time i'm
memorial and they also used at Santiago.
Today different condition exists. AS the Ger
mans we're sweeping down on Paris the operator
in Eiffel tower whispered through the very air the
Germans breathing to convey information to
St Petersburg Petrograd
The swish of the wireless 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 it went on its way.
One of the most wonderful developments of the
wireless telegraphy at the opening of the Eu-
ropean war when it became possible to talk all
the way from Berlin to Long island Germany
talked across the British fleet 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 or miles
away. In our last war 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 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 tight
ers all depended 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 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 news of victory back to Berlin with
out an instants delay.
1t made it possible for the French and British
to keep in communication with each other and
map out new line of defense when the Germans
hY,rIi hoir niOhtxy host inst HON
Marconi had already made himself famous be-
fore the wal broke out His invention
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 instrument of humanity and
peace it sprang to an instrument of war and ter
Like the pigeon or dove, the personifcation of
peace, it became an instrument of war.
Perhaps next to the wireless stations, the most
efficient messengers of war the homing pig
cons. These birds, the wisest of their kind
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 detachments to communicate
with their headquarters nor could they want bet
ter
On the fields of Europe the flights of the birds
In most instances short that they do not
have to stop for rest, thus preventing the mes
sageS from falling into the hands of the enemy.
pigeon in its flight scars so high it is almost
invisible to the naked eye, thus it necessitates
the of high power guns to bring it to the
ground. And any man who ever makes such a
shot can well call it a miracle
The king Of England and the emperor of Ger
many, as well other rulers of European nations,
have their own flying kits, and in time of peace
they enter their birds in races with birds belong
ing to their subjects. The crowned heads deem
this royal sport.
bird equipped for flying with message is
encased in bottlelike tube, the shape OF its
body.
spy puts his message in his pocket. proceeds
on his mission, quickly writes his discoveries on
small bits OF paper and places them in a tube