Jun
25
Pigeon-spies
For its seedy aims
espionage is also making use of the pigeon – the symbol of purity and
innocence. The Telegraph has reported that over 200 doves have been delivered
to Kiev from Galicia [in present-day Western Ukraine – RBTH]. The pigeons had
been taken away from the peaceful residents of Galicia, who used the birds as
spies to communicate with Vienna and other cities. The pigeons’ role was
uncovered by our Lvov investigative department.
What role does pigeon
post play today? We posed this question to a military expert.
“With the
appearance of new perfected ways of transporting communication, some think that
the role of the pigeon post is finished,” said the expert. “It was
thought that radio and the TV would eliminate the pigeon post. But in reality
this is not so. As perfected as technology is, the radiotelegraph or the field
telephone requires technical equipment, which for espionage is irrefutable
evidence. The other thing is that a pigeon is a timid and peaceful bird. How
will you know that such a pigeon, unlike its relatives, is carrying out a
mission of betrayal under the guise of a “peaceful” citizen?”
Birzhevye
Vedomosti, June 22, 1915
Special baths for
washing away insects
The German military
administration has recently invited 18 neutral journalists from North and South
America, Holland, Sweden, Romania, Greece and Switzerland to the battlefield to
show them the special baths set up to cleanse soldiers of insects.
In Alexandrov neutral
journalists have inspected the grandiose bath that was built in the last two
months at a cost of 1.75 million German marks. The bath has eight compartments
and in the course of 24 hours can wash at least 12,000 people. The disinfection
of boots and other leather articles belonging to the soldiers is carried out
with the help of dry steam at a temperature of 95 degrees.
Such baths, according
to the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper, have been set up along the entire Russian
border.
Yaroslavskiye
Vedomosti, June 24, 1915
A swarm of bees on
the Kremlin Palace
On June 25 at 10
o’clock in the morning a huge swarm of bees arrived at the Kremlin and settled
first on the roof of the Grand Kremlin Palace by the gilded foundation of the
steeple and then on the walls of the Poteshny Palace and the Winter Garden. A
part of the swarm flew into the building housing the department of
Adjutant-General Prince Odoyevsky-Maslov, who is responsible for the Court
Division. To remove the uninvited guests the authorities called the renowned
beekeeper K. Startsev.
Moskovsky
Listok, June 26, 1915
The new woman
A sensational piece
of news has been reported recently: It seems that women will be allowed to
study at university. However, people were surprised not by the news itself, but
by the fact of the possibility of such an issue in our age.
Actually, it is
extremely strange to hear and read that the commissions developing the new
university charter have not only raised this issue and not only debated it, but
also, as it appears, have not resolved it, since there have been objections.
It is a very old
question. How many times has it been discussed and not resolved? Women studied
during the 1860s and in our age. Nothing bad has happened ever since they have
been allowed to study the sciences, neither to the sciences nor to the
university. But preconceptions are frightening in their incomprehensible power
to sometimes muddle the most enlightened trends of our society.
Moskovskiye Gubernskiye
Vedomosti, June 28, 1915
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