The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-09

air, which he must have witnessed
had not moved him. The certainty tina
the Germans were only few miles
away had not concerned him. He
smoked his pipe and placidly cast his
line. 1t was soothing to overstrained
nerves to see that chap, but it was
only Il few hours later that / learned a
German spy had been arrested as he
posed as a fisherman, with a creel full
If carrier pigeons"
Another story reads:
I'm the cowl habit and tonsure that
mark the monk a young man told his
beads aboard the train bound for Ant
werp. And woman, hardly more
than girl, kept her eyes fastened on
the man of prayers She studied on
the devotion with which his fingers
slipped from decade to decade of the
long, well-worn rosary that hung from
the cincture about his waist But al
though his lips appeared to move In
humble duplication, the woman saw
that he had failed to kiss the cross.
The lapse was significant.
"SpyP the girl Kissed into the face
of the alleged ascetic In an instant
two guards had seized the man and
rushed him down the train corridor.
The woman examined the small wicker
basket behind in the seat Lifting the
lid, she found three pigeons. AS a
member of the field intelligence staff
of the French war ministry she knew
that at least three 'homers' would fail
to return with military information to
the lofts of the German posts"
Get German Pigeons.
A news dispatch briefly summarized
such find thus:
"a German trawler was captured by
a British warship near the Orkney
islands to the north of Scotland. She
is believed to have been engaged in
spying, as carrier pigeons were found
on board
reference has already been made to
the number of messages carried back
to the French lines by carrier pigeons
in the defense of Verdun. pigeon
captured by the French conveyed this
information:
THE rolling fire of the enemy with
guns of the heaviest caliber is such
that sectors S., c. and H. are to q
great extent leveled. The garrison, in
Guiding that of sector ", is disorgan-
lied completely. Some of it has been |
obliged to fall back on the Eighty-third |
and Ninety-eighth regiments, which
also had to retire.
Sector V. (von Raun's) was sub
jected to such fire that its observation
post was put out of order. All sorties
are being bombarded and one is occu-
pied constantly in replacing them.
"The battalion asks it's immediate
relief this evening by fresh troops. 1t
can fight no longer
"(Signed)
FIRST LIEUTENANT STEIN
BRECHT."
Carrier pigeons tell headquarters of
he progress of battle. Here is a
ypiccal report when the French army
ought along the Aisne:
at Immediately appeared that the
destruction of fhe German defense
lad been accomplished with as much
success as could be hoped for in so
earned by carrier pigeon and other
means that the Chateau de la Motto on
he French left near Allemant had
cen carried, and that at the center
Fort was taken. At 8 As {
.llemant village had been occupied,
he prisoners numbered a thousand. 1
nd the French assault troops were ad- '
ancing across the central plateau to- l
yard Vaudesson and Mont Parnasse {
uarry. At 10 80 the news was that i
hey were at the north of Hill 173, the t
lrther spur of Malmaison plateau, |
nd in a quarry 220 yards west of the i
)rt. BY 2 :45 p. m. the villages of d
raj neighboring quarries lying on the
orthern edge of the Aisne hills, had n
cen occupied. Chavignon was the C
lrthest point contemplated in the n
an and represented an advance of f
he and one-half miles made in the I
zee of the best remaining troops of h
e German empire" n
Aided by Camouflage.
While many carrier pigeons changed :.
cir habits of spiraling, finding 1t .
vigorous practice and learned to fly r
lck and then forward at an altitude =
low, camoufage aided q q
rds considerably in getting back to =.
cir loft carrying with them messages .
ON troops in front. At Fort Vaux, -
the battle of Verdun, the crown =,
ince's army had special group Of =, ~
en- shooting down carrier pigeons as <. -
ey left the fort. -
And another story of Verdun. 1t
is at Thiaumont, sixteen times -
ken, lost and retaken. Wireless and
ephones had long ceased to exist. W
, human being could cross the ter "
In. The c0mmandant was in des~ w
rate need of communicating with ~
2 rear. Suddenly the glasses re- -
a1ed dog, crouching ON it's belly, -. &c
awling through the flashes, and in " ~,
of temporary lull leaping s''
ward On its back was pannier. -
arer and nearer the dog came, and -,
ayers were involuntarily offered as ",