Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05
DOGS IN BATTLE,
Filipino CANNES Which Fled When
the Bullets Began to Fly.

the Bullets Began to Fly.
Manila Correspondence Chicago Record
fefhaps you have heard about the dogs
OF war. This story is about dogs and
war, but these dogs were not tearing at
their chains trying to get at the enemy. In
iact' tney would have been quite satisfied
II no brown-clad soldiers had ever landed
on the Island of Luzon, for these pets are
peaceable, though they can bark fiercely at
strangers who prowl around the nipa huts
of their masters
Dogs In Manila and all over the Philip
pine Islands are long and white, with ears
that stick up like the ears of fox, and
podies that are not overly fat. Their ribs
SUCK out bit and they are always hungry
Inc dogs that creep back into the towns
where the American soldiers are howl when
TATTOO sounds at night, and again when
taps or lights OUT is given by the
early, too, and if any one is awake their
howls can be heard when the buglers sound
reVellle in the early morning
On April % the day of the fight between
the american and Filipino armies at Bag
bag the dogs played important part
The signal corps was back along the rail-
road track stringing telegraph wires so tina +
General Otis could be informed of the prog
IesS OF the hght. Not gun had been fired
Suddenly white dog went streakine along
through the grass at the side of the rail-
road. The signal men called to it. But he
PAID no attention. Just kept his head due
soulh ana ran as fast as his legs could
carry him. How it was he knew bullets
were going to fly over that place is more
than can be told by dog experts But he
knew, for 1t was but few minutes after
ne passed when shot rang out on that
still air. 1t was a signal for the beginning
of the battle. -
More dogs came running past. Bullets
knocked the dust in front7of them Stuck
g,1,,,
could not run faster and they dared NOT
stop No one knows how far thew ran.
Perhaps until the din of that battle was
entirely lost to their sharp ears
There was one dog wiser than all the
rest Had he had human intelligence he
could not have found a safer place We
round him as we hurried along the railroad
grade to the river lying in the deepest ma
OF the oitch covered on one side by the
nlsh embankment and protected on the
other by a grass-covered mound We
thought he was dead, he lay SO still and
some passed on with their bodies bent for
the bullets still whistled in the air thoneh
the enemy had been routed and was on the
retreat. l looked closer. The dogs ewes
We're wide OPEN But when he was spoken
to he only winked, never stirring a muscle
The look which came into his ewes asked
as plainly as human tongue could spea X
that he be left alone He was left behind
this wise dog was, but he saw the charge
him one H Ha'i h 1otunteers-they rushed past
the bullets cut the air. But he was safe
and knew it.
Ihat night he came to the camp timidIv.
and some one threw him meat So he &C.,
Drawer and followed the army on fts adj
vance to Calumpit Where he was during
this fight no one seems to know. but he
came up to US the night after and lay down
near where group of officers were talking
When we referred to him and the Others
listened to the story of the Bagbag the
hero of 1t wagged his tail and crept nearer