MESSAGE BY PIGEON PROM MAROONED AIRMAN
Shortly before midnight on April 6 an exhausted carrier pigeon fell on tho bedroom floor of a Toronto 'business , man wom of tho leading hotels of Atlantic Uty. He summoned Iho attendant, who carried the bird downstairs, where it ,was observed by a naval officer, who detached a small cylinder from the leg, of tho bird read, "Down, icn miles west of submarine chaser, i a.m., dawn, Gas exhausted. Ensign Finch." •'iho officer a liiinuto Inter had tho coastguard station on the telephone. Five minutes afterwards the Headquarters of the Jtourtli Nnval District nl Philadelphia had tho message, and orders were, speeding to the Cane May iNaval Base. Seaplanes equipped whii searchlights went out into tho storm. Submarine chasers struggled after -them, and, after scouring the seas for t.uo Hours, one of the searchlights picked up the buttered wreck of Ensi»n Finch's Uving boat 10 miles oif tho capo.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 7
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155MESSAGE BY PIGEON PROM MAROONED AIRMAN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 7
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