Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1918 — DOGS DETECT FOOD HOARDERS [ARTICLE]

DOGS DETECT FOOD HOARDERS

German Police Unable to Cope With the Situation Until Canines Were Pressed Into Service. The prospects of famine In Germany ■ are so serious that food hoarding if growing among the wealthy to an extent that has given the government no end of trouble. The German police have exhausted every means of detecting the hoarders except one, and that is to use highly trained police dogs on their trail. This is now being done, and the dogs are proving themselves invaluable in running down violators of the food laws. Near Berlin, according to a correspondent, the dogs recently located a man who had been pilfering from vegetable patches of truck gardeners. The dogs led the police to the house where the stolen vegetables were hidden. In Munich a constable attempted to seize a man caught with 50 pounds of meat brought from an illegal slaughter house. The man escaped, leaving the burden behind, but was tracked to a hay loft by police dogs. When the officer returned to the spot where the meat had been left he found the meat gone. The police dogs were again called upon and they located the meat In a house where it had been hidden by a woman.