Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1911 — German Dogs Unmuzzled. [ARTICLE]

German Dogs Unmuzzled.

Berlin.—After decreeing the massacre of 700 dogs whose owners could not afford to pay the new tax of $6 a year,' the police president of Berlin has issued an “emancipation proclamation,” by the terms of which Greater Berlin’s 60,000 dogs may go unmuzzled. The police authorities have come to the conclusion that the. compulsory muzzle is an antiquated institution, and have decided to follow the exexample of London, Paris, and other capitals which long ago abandoned it The unmuzzling order iz the result of a persistent campaign by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Muzzles need in future be worn only by dogs known to be dangerous or which have bitten people. If such animals prove chronic offenders the police will seize and kill them.