They're more flying rats than desert rats but it has emerged China's army is training 10,000 messenger pigeons to serve in the event of a breakdown in mass communication systems.
Maybe we can get our Pony Express up and running again just in case.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
For many years I raced homing pigeons. 600 miles, that was the division in which my birds competed. Spent a fortune on my original stock and every once in a while introduced fresh genes into my birds.
