Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — Dogs Trained in War. [ARTICLE]

Dogs Trained in War.

In all the European armies save that of Britain canine intelligence is employed in the role of spies, messongers and aids to the wounded. The Italian sentries in the Alps are always accompanied by dogs! the Dutch found them in Acheen invaluable in preventing the butchery of sentinels by stealthy foes; the Russians employed them to some extent in their last war with Turkey; the French have used them in Tunis and Algiers, and the Austrians utilize them in the detection of ambuscades. The dogs employed by the Russians ace wolf and sheep dogs, and a species of St. Bernard, and equipped with packages and bandages around their noftks and flasks of soups or brandy, are taught to find the hidden wounded, offer them restoratives, give the alarm, and afterward, if necessary, to draw them on little hand carts to the hospital. The Germans use pointers, Scotch collies, Pomeranians and shorthaired sporting dogs, which are trained to march silently, indicating strangers by a point or a low growl, to carry messages some miles, to obey men in the German uniform and to halt all others.