PIGEON SAVES AIRMAN’S LIFE.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 July 1919, Page 2

PIGEON SAVES AIRMAN’S LIFE.

. l_ FALLS IN HOTEL, WITH “DOWN” I M‘J<;ss..i(:-E ‘FROM ’PLANE AT - SEA. 1 s ~—~— llifiiooi [inl:el‘(‘stino\.‘ I.K.IwAI mmmn Lqfm o .2 2} thr. comes from New York. ‘J-HST ilf'C(‘!' Olcvpn oaclock at night’ a _ otel Marlboro’ 81913heim, was -'3\\«ilCl'llllg off his fight pl.C_ paratory to getting into bed, when a pigeon flew in at his Open “..:m«Hw am: fell exhausted on the floor. I Exainination showed 1.; had a Sum“ ‘aluminium cylinder fastened to one of its legs, and in ‘it. mas this Ir.es.sage;_ l “Down ten miles west of snbnlarine chaser. at.'.ls pm. No gas.——. Ensign Finch.” Fortunately’ a naval oflir.-er '»‘.'as at the hotel. Realising thr.-it -the ]l1(_‘::FI{1g'() meant that an airman in a disabled machine was floating many miles out in the Atlantic in the darkness, he telephoned to the Naval authorities. Radio messages were sent all along the coast, and naval patrol boats were out within -an "hour in the general direction given by the message, so forming a wide screen’ of seai’-'ch. Far out at sea a submarine chaser Searchlight located the disabled aero-pl;-7.110. -Later Ensign Finch landed at Cape May, and at once telephoned to the Marlboro’ Blenheim Hotel at Atlanta City. orclering his pi\9,‘eon the best 9:1:-:'e:1(.l the hotel could stand