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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17470, 2 June 1922, Page 13

In Piccadilly, not fifty yards from Piccadilly Circus, one of London's indomitable pigeons became bewildered by the traffic, stopped a moment too long in the roadway, and was struck and injured by a wheel of a motor-omnibus. It lay, bruised and almost senseless, in the middle of the street. Another omnibus was approaching, which could hardly avoid crushing it to death. But a girl in a navy blue costume dashed swiftlj from the pavement and picked up the -wounded bird from before the approaching wheels. Motor-omnibuses and taxi-cabs jarred to a standstill to avoid running down the rescuer, who stood holding the bird she had saved. For a few moments all the busy traffic of the street was stopped until she had reached the pavement, where an admiring crowd gathered to watch her skilful tending of the wounded bird.