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FATRIOTIC PIGEONS.
WINGED MESSENGERS WHO SAVE
LIVES IN WARTIME
SNIPER DAN
[BY LIEUZ. F. J. BLEATH.]
FLOOD RELIEF IN CHIHLI
EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS.
ACTION AGAINST THE
SHANGHAI CLUB MEMBER COMPLAINS OF BEING ILLEGALLY EXPELLED.
In H.BM's. Supreme Court, Shanghai, on July 11th, before His Honour Bir Havilland de Saumarez, Gordius Nick sen asked for a declaration that he was
still a member of the Shanghai Club and entitled to enjoy and exercise the rights and privileges of such membership.
::
It was old Dan Haggarty, corporal of the snipping section, who first saw the --Mr. Hsiung Hui-ling, Dircetor-General The pigeon is a bird that has been
BEEWAY 1o rid No Man's Land of the German of Flood Relief and Conservancy, has ridiculously libelled during the war, for snipers who were troubling his battalion. submitted a memorial to the President, in no sy melodrama or novelette has been Uld Dan was the willest of the very which he reports on recent flood relief Wily men who formed the regimental complete without one or more of these snipera Therefore his officet listched to work in Chibli performed by sundry hini, as he explained his idea, with all organizations specially established for fascinsting birds, and they are always the consideration which his reputation is set out that the flood affected 105
this purpose. repasated as being engaged on the micrited German side. Ever since the original You see, Suc, it's like this, the hsien and a population of 1,800,000. An war story of the market woman of corporal began. A man hidin ahinta it was felt that the funds provided by the Armentières, or Atras, or Rheims (it dyse ans, hadden frae a man on the Bamo Government might be sufficient only for a
Pixintiff contended that he had been is told by verucious eye-witnesses of all slue of the dyke ns himsel'. "An' though short period, orders were conveyed to thes, towns and many more)-whose these sniper buddies are hidden weel various hsien to undertake sundry relief a member of the Club since 1895, but on ngute attracted the attention of the alert enough rae us in the trenches, if 1 orawl work with funds raised by public subs June 17th, 1918, the defendant club un- soldiery and whose bust flow away when ootan liự up ahint them, I've got a far seription. Moreover, the Metropolitan M they arrested her, the pigeon has labour better chance of dadin' them oot. Flood Relief Union Council entrusted lawfully purported to pass a résolution cd inder a load of suspicion. Actually The officer looked doubtfully at his officials gentry and Christian Missions to expelling the plaintiff from its member- the carrier pigeon is a must patriotic aged corporal. Old Dan's grandson was undertake all kinds of charitable work ship, which said resolution the defendant bird, and has been the means of saving helping to carry on his coal contracting Regulations were drawn up to govern lonnink unlawfully confrmed on July 1st, innumerably lives. France fathering his battalion ampers gruel cheds, charitable mortgage offices, 1818.
business in Glasgow while he was out in bureaus, refuges, cheap rice bureaux, One of the great difficulties of modern for sheer love of the game. Throughout and offices to lend seed to the farmers. wailare is the quick communication of the three years which they had been All classes of people suffering as a result new about local fighting. In the ordi together the officer's liking and respect nary way very sector of the front is for the veteran hnd steadily grown, and of the flood were in this way benchted linked up by a complicated system of the thought of the risks of the job which and countless lives were saved. Thus the buried telephone and telegraph wires so old Dan was so coolly proposing, made funds voluntarily subscribed were used to arranged that even in the heaviest fight him hesitate to grant permission.
assist in no small degree the Govern ing one or more lines remain intact
ment's relief work. during the bombardment. In theory it in excellent In practice the wires get blown up by shells or break underground where a tank passes over them or go wrong somehow, and the engineers of the signd service have to sacrifice valuable lives hunting up the breaks and doing repairs under shell-firo
But something had to be done to rid the battalion of the annoyance of the snipers opposite, and the corporal was the best fitted of all his section to carry it successfully through. So with an earnest caution to be careful, the officer reluctant
his consent. gare
plaintif and Mr. G. R. Wright for the Mr. N. C. Honie appeared for the defendant club
Mr, Home asked for an order that par-
ticulars of defence be filed.
Mr Wright said they did not know what was meant by unlawfully,⠀⠀⠀ It The following organizations were estab might mean that the resolution was pass lished and financed by officials and gentry ed on a bot day or on a wet day, or that in their respective districts:-36 gruel there was no querum present or that the sheds, 144 cheap rice bureaux, 288 loan plaintiff had no notice of the meeting. bureau, do refuges, 18 seed offices, 28 The defendants must know the grounds. nortgage offices, The following amounts upon which the plaintiff wlied for the Dawn found Old Dan Bougly
were raised and material collected purpose of establishing that he was Counsel asked to in a ruined barn a hundred yards from silver, 8417,148, copper cash 181,154 wrongfully expelled. the German lines and nearly eight hund-
be supplied with & proper statement of claim. red from his own. The No Man's Land strings, rice 25,710, 503 catties; flour
Mr. Hone said he had no objection to was of broad expanse in this sector. 10,000 catties, biscuits 3,000 catties; conl
The British had only recently advanced, 100 tons. The relief offices established by that, but be would ask for discovery be
officials under grant from the Metropolitan Flood Relief Union Council consisted of 228 gras sheds, 78 refuges, 50 orphanages, 5 work sheds and 8 seed offices, the grants amounting to $275,630.50
In the same way the wire system ends automatically with No Man's Land, and advances made beyond that zone are în an area where no signal communications exis Messages to keep the staff in time to transform the countryside to the fomed how the day is going, or urgent oarren waste which marks the long custab There were trees, for reinforcements, more hebed trench areas. bols or ammunition, all have to be and spinneys, and hedge-rows still stand carried by runners who have to pass backing, ideal places for ship the Ger- 1,054 offices were established by tho. Ms. Wright could not see how his learn.
positions and in these biding places
demands
through the enemy's barrage to our old lite for first thing after an attack u hostile barrage is put down by the eny artillery behind it, in order to pretent reinforcements
pushing the thrust still deeper into their lines.
SUMER MEMAN-TOWER SAVED.
Pigeons are now doing much of the work of them runners, Experiments were carried out with homers, and it was found that pigeon memengera were both reliable and swift. Troops engaged in an
man snipers.
were
tacts in the case of which the plaintiff had no knowledge. He suspected irres gularities of which he had no particular knowledge, and therefore at the present Aitogether time he could not give proper particulars.
charitable relief organizations, which raised friend could possibly be in any diffi- It was in quest of these riflemen that ed, expended and distributed $692,778.50, catly, because his claim must be based the corporal was peering out from among and the copper cash, rice, flour, biscuits entirely upon the rules of the club. The the tumbled down bricks, hoping to
whole point was as to whether they had and coal enumerated above, my able to despatch one or two of the must addition there were Chinese and observed the rules of the club. Those the troublesome before the day was over- ais own perilous situation, so near the
Plaintiff had notice of and it would be German lines, he never gave a thought
easy for him to allege in the statement of claim any breach of the rules which The nether well of the building rose up
might apply to his claim. The plaintif must know what his case was. He was served with a notice in respect of tha meetings, he attended them, and be must- know what grounds he relied upon for saying he was unlawfully expelled.
snipers in front.
foreign charitable organizations which were run and financed independently of the Directorate General. It is hoped to a foot or two behind him and screened make a report upon these later on.
The Director General states that in from the enemy, and he trusted to s own skill to guard him from the spite of these efforts the area affected was tap tomous that the available funds were operation are served out baskets a
ie had already reckoned out three of comparatively insignificant and many pigeous. They liberate these birds when nculsary, and as the speed of a pigeon these fellows in front of him by cure who should have been helped were un is some eight hundred yards a minutely noting the docting going on in the avoidably left without succour.
No Man's Land. He had oven a rough the message reaches the homing loftsades of their position. Two wore certain- mile or so behind the front line in very in the sunken road of which he could abort time. There the message is dealt see the sloping bank nearest the British with and forwarded by wire, despatch trenches. He placed the other among rider, or runner to the authorities con some sucli-hole rubble half-way across GLL cerned
a sp right, but the position of this man
was more uncertain than that of the
other
THE SIBERIAN SITUATION. GEN HORVATH'S PROGRAMME.
HARBIN, July 10th, General Horvath's Government is tem porarily located at Grodekovo, from which place he is negotiating with the Czecho-Blovaks at Nikoisk.
On July 12th, Mr. Home said that since the sitting of the previous morning be had received a letter. from his learned friend saying he was prepared to give counsel inspection of the minutes of all committee and members! meetings which reinted to the matter of tho plaintiff's expulsion. On receipt of that letter. Counsel wrote asking also for inspection of the account books of the Club show- ing payments by members of their sub seriptions for May, June and July, 1918, That, he understood from his learned
friend, he was not prepared to give
His Lordshin-1 should think not.
pigon experts, whose civilian hobby is unconscious of the passage of time, knie cireulsted, all Bolshevik laws and should be very much astonished if he had
The Army pigeon is not conscripted for service till he is at least a year old.wo, and Dan gave all his attention to the is then taken to France, and spends studying every irregularity and and thite or more months at a loft or homing shade or colour in the sunken road. station getting used to his own place for hours he watched as patiently as fle men in charge of these lofts are an animal waiting for its prey, wholly this made vitally useful in time of war,ng eventually that his search would be rewarded; and at last he poked his rille Troops handling pigeons have the birds very cautiously out between the bricks, sived out to them in special light wicker and two quick shots stretched the Jaegers Bangers big cough not to cramp the on the roadway, where they lay like heaps birds for if these are kept in contined of debris dislodged from the bank above, spice they may damage their wing or tail feathers, and become less service. |
No more shote were fired in the No Man's Land during the day. It was as CV if the word bad gone round the enemy With cach hamper are supplies of seed snipers that a greater than themselves was and water and full instructions on how loose among them, and they were cower: to attach message, to the bird's leg. ing down in their covers afraid to move Water, be it noted, is more important for fear of attracting his attention. than food to a pigeon, for it kept without wator, and then liberated with a message the thirsty bird flies to the nearest shall bels for a drink, and very probably gets killed.
Pigeons cannot be liberated at dusk, fer they simply go to roost on the near rst convenient perch and do not take, up the journey until morning. Some buds have done wonders in passing through the stiffest bombardments; others live simply disappeard or go astray. Sometimes a bird with a vital message will not enter the homing loft,
stop
their capers, said Old Dan to his officers
gang oot agane if they dinna after he had crawled in that evening. returned from an ordinary ramble, he And as casually as though he had just
walked away down the communication trench to turn in for the night.
GERMAN TANKS ROUTED.
restoration
at this stage. I don't say you are never entitled to it.
General Horvath has issued a prcolat tion announcing his policy which is being
promises (1.)-Abolition
ordinances. (2) The
of legal tribunals and administrative institutions the enigmade an order for plead self-government for ring the statement of defence to be de cipalities and zemstvos
livered one week after the statement of (3)The equality of citizenship, the Clair
maintenance of citizen equality at law and the maintenance of citi Zena! rights and liberties. (4)The general right of election. (3) Recognition of all former alliances,
conventions and agreements with Allies and neutral contries and also political obligations and proprie torial rights of territory. (6)The retoration of the Army, with the strictest discipline and without giving the Army political rights, (7.)-Netoration of the right of private
ownership of property.
US. ESPIONAGE ACT. AN ARREST THAT CAUSED SENSATION,
Something of a sensation was caused in American circles (says the NC. Daily of 12, Studley Avenue on a warrant issued Yer) by the arrast of Mr. D. L. McCoy, under the amended Act of the American Legislature entitled "An Act to punish nets of interference with the foreign rela
(8)All questions conretning land totions, the neutrality, and the foreign com
aerce of the United States, to punish be decided by the Constituent As
espionage and better to enforce the (9.) The veteration of commerce and criminal laws of the United States and
for other purposes,”
which is IDFC com trade by the abolition of ton of monly known by ira shorter titl tionalization and socialization of Espionage Act.
title of the commercial and industrial organ tions
The first battle between tanks of which interesting official details are now available, occurred during the great fighting around Villors-Bretonneux on (10)--Improvement of popular education.
Mr. McCoy was arrested by Mr. J.
but stays on neighbouring roofs cooing April 24th. It was the occasion of the Kengious freedom and on being taken before M.
about what it has seen. In such a case if the pigeon expert cannot coax it in with special blandishments known only to him, the message must be obtained by speedier means, and a shot gun is kept handy for the purpose,
IMPERSONATING A BROTHER
TAKES HIS PLACE IN. FIRING
LINE
debut of the German tanks. Six were
and started to roll up our line from the
to
It
U.S. Vice-Consul,
(12)The right of Siberia and other te
in the sum of $500. Was admitted set out with the advancing infantry, regions to exercise autonomny as Mr. Hoytt some time last month wrote a letter to his mother anks. It was a challenge not to be ra Delegates from Vladivostock are visit alleged to have criticized the U.S. Gov
parts of United Russia.
in the United States in which he is sisted. Some of our heavy tanks soon ing General Horvath with a view to effect ernment in such a manner as to bring put in an appearance, cager for battle,ng a coalition of General Horvath's Gov him within the terms of the Act. The ond engaged in a regular duel with the enment ich left Hardin for divostok young man, who is 24 years of age, or enemy monsters, with the result that ment, which left Harbin for Vladivoston pressed great surprise at his arrest and the latter went lumbering back. Our Week ago, a
protested his loyalty to the American female tanks suffered most, and it INTERVENTION NEEDED. Government was the nale that finally had the best The Crecho-Slovaks are the dominant had previously offered his services to the Mr. McCoy, who was educated at Yale, of the exchanges with the enemy. After factor, the peasantry acclaiming them Yale Military Intelligence the German tanks had beaten a retreat, everywhere. They are apparently await
Unit in At Folkestone Police-court recently. our new light tanks, which have been ing instructions from the French on the foient in French and German, but was not response to their appeal for men pra- well-set-up boy, named Henry Arthur christened whippets, took a hand in Consular Body at Vladivostock. The posi Stevens, was charged with being in mili- the game, and performed with distinction is ripe for Allied action, which accepted on account of reluctance to take tay uniform without authoritation. They attacked the enemy's infantry can be done or how it can be done; register for the draft, but was not accept
should be taken forcefully. As regards from Asia. He also attempted to The Chief Constable said the boy was brought over from France, but the com- on the ridge rumming from Villers- petent military authority, however, would Bretonnenx to Hangard Wood, rolling the present clements Are capable of being ca, being unable to fulfil the not consent to proceedings against the boy up his line. The ridge was found to he is delayed the opportunity will soon pass. McCoy - For that he did unlaw
moulded to suit the Allies, but if guidance
of the authorities the requirements
The text of the charge
rge laid
id against Mr. under the very remarkable circumstances strongly held by, machine-gun groups on - Teuter. of the case. The boy had an older brother shell holes, while on the reverse slopes
fully write abusive language about the serving in 2 regiment, and he went home three German battalions were forming
military forces of the United States on leave in November, He failed to re up for an attack. The “* whippets 4.
America, said language being intended to tam to his unit, so he was notified as an proceeded from shell-hole to shell-hole,
bring the form of government and the akwento Inquiries were made by the firing from 600 to 800 rounds, each at
A Social Reconstruction'' dinner was military forces of the United States into pero, but he could not be found, la ranges varying from ten to 100 yards and given by the ladies of the Debating contempt, scorn, contumely and disre
dressed himself up in they ran down many Germans who were their club house in Piccadilly
duction of the Lyceum Club recently at pute. kisk, and
his brother.
Developing his ideal of a six-hours day COUNT KAROLYI'S DEMAND FOR Handed over to
*** | It is estimated that the whippets"
for manual workers, Lord Loverhulma he was sent to France to join the unit to enemy, and completely broke down the of machinery we could automatically in
AN INDEPENDENT HUNGARY, the efficiency improving which he was supposed to belong. He
attack which he was preparing A shell crease the production as well as the con. and
A Budapest telegram to the leser d went straight up to the fighting the Gehill destroyed one of these tanks, and suming power of the nation. The acid Zeitung says that Count Michiel Karolyi was engaged for 18 days during the Gor three others were slightly damaged, but test was whether a reduction of the hours in the course of a speech at Eger (Boke clared that during that time he killed a all were reported to be recoverable of labour led to a greater production ac
Februaryrrendered himself to the attempting to escape.
LABOUR'S NEW DAY,
police by the military authorities inflicted at least 400 casualties on the contended that by
Duin offensive on the Somme. He de-
We are
Of
alliance between Germany and Austria- fighting an
good many Germans; in fact, he could Amongst the personnel we had only five less cost; and, so far, it had been proved the protested against the extension of not possibly miss them. His impersona casualties, so that the whole business was that, with each reduction in hours, tha tion was discovered, and he was sent to carried through, not only brilliantly, but output had been more than maintaine-dependent de Be England. As the competent military quite cheaply. The engagement may bo The question was of especial importance can obtain independence of the
of the Ukraine, declined to grant the necessary regarded as a lesson in coonomy of man to women, because, while men's daily we ought to claim independenre in the
to offer against the boy-
first place for
which
We desire
Hungary
be independent in
Smary prosecution, he
had power, for seven tanks, manned by women always had bousehold were o
was finished when they left the political, inancial, and economic
GO
Chairman (Mr Boyd) What twenty men, pat 450 Germans out of as well; and it was only by means of the puntes me is why they did not find out action and broke up the attack of a com- leisure that we became civilised human spheres. I therefore, protest against any about him before
plete brigade. The tanks left their base beings. But just as masters had been extension of the alliance, as it would be an Mr. Reeves: I cannot
cannot understand
three and a half miles away a little mistaken in the past in supposing that obstacle to our aspirations for independ The boy has done very wrong in doing before mid-day, fought a very successful the best results could be obtained by the ence Count Karoly, then explained his what he old, but one cannot help admir action, and were back in their "homes" lowest, poesinle wages and the longest por prace policy, saying We must stand up ing his pluck, grilles te
again before three p.m, having covered sible bours, so workmen must realise that for a peace by understanding for the pre- The Magistrate discharged the boy, and ten miles. It was a good day for the the policy of ca canny was equally servation of civilisation's great poses complimented him upon his pluck, "whoppets.
fallacious,
siamn
"