Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1915 — Bees in War Strategy. [ARTICLE]

Bees in War Strategy.

Cairo.—To hinder the advance of British forces the Germans in East Africa placed hives containing wild bees in bushes op each side of the road. Wires led ;to the lids of the hives. German machine gun fire and the sting of the bees repelled the British attack.