PIGEON'S EXPLOIT
HOLLAND AND SCOTLAND SECRET MESSAGE Reccintlv a pigeon fancier in Scotland released four pigeons to participate- in a race to Loudon. Three ■only returned to the owner, Mr J. Thorpe, The fourth was given up as lost. Later, however, the pigeon returned bearing a message, in a tube attached to its foot. The message was iCrom a Dutchman in Holland and , revealed that the pigeon had landed : in his empty pigeon lol't, his own rpigeons having been slaughtered by order of the Nazis some time ago. In addition to this: the note: contain-: cd a message which was untranslate=able. Mr Thorpe assumed that it was coded information for the Netherlands Government and passed it on to the suitable authorities. Apparently the message was in* «deed. coded and contained in forma-, rfcion of vital importance.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 37, 31 December 1943, Page 7
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136PIGEON'S EXPLOIT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 37, 31 December 1943, Page 7
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