Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1918 — Ships’ Dogs Are Sea Heroes. [ARTICLE]

Ships’ Dogs Are Sea Heroes.

Many dogs have received decorations during the war—not from the government, of course, but from soldiers and sailors, according to a London dispatch In the European edition of the New York Herald. A naval officer Just returned from the Mediterranean tells an Interesting story of the pet on his ship. The dog, taken young, was rated as “puppy,” which It seems, In naval estimate, Is a pretty humble rating. However, the dog conducted himself like a gentleman and a scholar, the officer declares, and was In due time decorated with the insignia of A. B. dog. He misbehaved on various occasions and failed to do his part in one or two brushes with submarines, so he was marched on the quarterdeck and solemnly remitted to “puppy.” Ever since, the story goes, he has been striving to retrieve himself, but thus far he has not recovered his rank. It is'said that the dogs on the ships which fought at Jutland —and there were many of them —have all been decorated by their shipmates. The animals during the battle, it is asserted, played the part of real heroes without a cowardly hair upon one of