PIGEONS IN WAR TIME.
f-r- , ADMIRALTY BIRDS TO BE SOLD/ Bt TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT • ' London, June 8. Tho Admiralty has decided ■ that ethergraphs : will render carrier pigeons unnecessary ■ " - : f Tho "Standard" states that tho' Admiralty, by selling tho birds, will effect an economy of only £400 a year. On the other hand, pigeons will still bo needed, on piclot boats used for watchiug hostile harbours in time of war. ■ , German agents havo been instructed to buy the pigeons regardless of cost. Tho birds can be bred to homo from any direction.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 5
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90PIGEONS IN WAR TIME. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 5
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