Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — Pigeon a War Hero. [ARTICLE]

Pigeon a War Hero.

The feat of Napoleon’s A. D. C„ who galloped up with a message in the press of battle, and being asked: “You are wounded?” replied, “Pardon, sire, I am dead," and fell lifeless, has been equaled by an army pigeon. This pigeon flew home with one of its legs shot away, only to fall dead on the loft floor. But its message, almost ‘driven into its body by the shot, saved the lives of hundreds of men.-—From the European Edition of the New York Herald.