Birds as Messengers 
Arras, on August oth, 1918, was presented to 
the Zoological Society of London in October. 
The two Germans in charge of the loft at- 
tempted, on the near approach of the Cana- 
dians, to burn it, but our men quickly de- 
spatched the Germans and extinguished the 
flames. The marks of the fire, however, 
remain, and several bullet-holes may be seen 
penetrating the outside frame of the loft 
(Limes, 2.x1.18). 
In March 1918, when every one was invited 
to invest their money in War Bonds, an addi- 
tional attraction was afforded by the Pigeon 
Post Service which carried messages from 
the investor’s home to the Tank Bank in 
Trafalgar Square, notifying the amount of 
the investment. Queen Alexandra’s PIGEON 
attracted a crowd of people to the mobile loft 
when the bird arrived, within a minute, from 
Marlborough House with the announcement 
that Her Majesty wished to purchase 500 
War Savings Certificates on behalf of the 
Queen Alexandra League (Globe, 4.i11.18). 
In America the HOMER was likened to ‘‘ the 
DOVE sent out from the Ark of Noah which 
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