The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09

negotiate the difficulties of the ground much better than an infantryman. The war dog should assist the advance guard, SCOUT the country and scent the enemy's ambuscades from afar;. and a uable in time of war.
 ''The war dog should scout out by word of command, and his movements and demeanor should be an easy index of the whereabouts of an enemy, just as the sportsman by watching his dog knows when he may expect game; the smallest indentation of ground should therefore no longer. serve for an ene- mys ambuscade when war dogs are employed. The latter can also scent out tracks of the erlsmy and bring him to bay; but the rule must be strictly ob- served that the eyes of a scout are fixed only on the dog to watch his move-. ments, and on nothing else. In recon noitring hills the scouts should remain at the bottom and put out the dogs over the top. Two dogs would easily run through a small covert and reconnOitre, but for q large wood five to ten would be necessary; a forest would have to be reconnoitred a certain distance round by putting out the dogs five or six hun dred yards round In reconnoitring de- files the dogs should be sent up both sides and through the centre. In exam ming villages the dogs should be sent up the principal streets, and all hay stacks gardens etc.. should be visited while looking out for lurking enemies; in fact, dogs do this work far quicker than dismounted men. Also, if posted with flank guards defending the Hanks of marching colnuns dogs ought to be of the greatest service
 By night marches during fog and rain it is necessary to secure the troops from attacks as much as by day, but night is specially favorable to surprises, and moreover, surprises at night fre-. Hquently cause panics, these results be- ing far more serious than attacks by day. At night time the senses of man are continually at fault, failing to dis tinguish objects at short distances, and creating very great mistakes. The dog is more gifted than mankind in the re- spect of nose and ears, and should prove more indispensable by night than by day and scouts going out at night should be accompanied by dogs, who would give confidence and calnness and protect them from surprises and ambuscades, A lost dog can also find the way when a man is at falut on a pitch dark night and dog should be able to scent out missing party, for example in a. terrific snow w-storm, when the blinding and driving snow renders forward movement Impossible.
 We now come to another use of the dog to a body of troops on the march
 namely, as means of connection with the different parts of the column. For graph, but for short distances cavalry is best fitted; if there is no cavalry, and if the duties of cavalry are very severe when reconnoitring, the infantry may be left to its own resources. Then war dogs would prove invaluable for send- ing in news from patrols. and save them much fatigue; while the risk of having a verbal message misunderstood would be avoided. Flag signalling comes OltI slo olGiieli- ing the dog should render great assist ance and, moreover in foggy weather, driving snow and very dense country flag signalling would be of no use. For this purpose, the French and Germans employ dogs to keep up communication between the outposts. The message given to the dog should always be writ. ten and placed in a small dispatch case fastened on to the dogs collar stating time of departure, address, etc, and the dog should be dispatched in the required direction. <'.' si
 'tThe value of war dogs to the sen- tries is to be considered, especially as in modern warfare the night attack ap- pears to be taking d foremost place, because the attacking force can reach the objective without the enormous losses from modern firearms if it can come up unobserved in the darkness. In the modern system of double sen tries, although one man may to some extent inspire confidence in the other, their powers of hearing and seeing are no more increased than with the single sentry, and darkness, storms and fogs
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