The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-02

comrades. who afterwards had been
obliged to abandon him. His cap hao
also been lost and the dog could find
nothing that he could carry back to the
ambulance to report his find. but he
had the intelligence not to touch the
bandage on the soldiers head. Finally.
despairing of finding anything he coulo
carry back, he lay down on the GROUND
dismally until help came.
DR.. Vertier, surgeon in the 18TH
Army corps, reports that the ambu-
lance dogs in his corps have saved
single instance have they mistaken a
dead body for a wounded man. In
some cases where the soldiers cap
could not be found. the dog has torn
open his knapsack and hunted out
something that he could carry back
cry:
The National society for the train
ing of ambulance dogs has already
sent 100 of these animals into the
field and II more are soon to go. DR..
TrOussaint, director of the sanitary
service at the ministry of war. has
authorized the training of stretcher
bearers with the dogs, so that they
may be able to work better in har-
mony, the dog knowing the man and
the man knowing the dog.
AS a rule. each dog works over a
ground of 200 to 400 yards, and as
soon as he scents a wounded man, he
begins to bark and seek some article
that he can carry back as an indica-
ton to the ambulance.
For the same reason that the ser
vices of the dog have become neces-
sary in finding the wounded, they
have become useful, as demonstrated
In the Belgian campaign, in the
bringing up of machine guns. The
dogs are so trained that the soldiers
are not obliged to accompany them in
hauling the guns; they creep along
under cover as well as they can to
the desired position, leaving the dogs
and they guns behind. When they
they have to do is to whistle and the
dogs come up with the machine guns
and are scarcely noticeable to the
enemy.
wounded Pals.
An affecting scene was reported
from Belgium after the first fighting
around Liege. A machine gun dog,
a worthy emulator of '-Patrasche''-
the dog Of Flanders immortalized by
"Oulda" (LOuise de la Ramee), the
English novelist, was wounded in the
leg; at the same time one of the gun
ners was wounded in the face and aft
er the battle they were seen returning.
The soldier had the dog in his arms
and the dog was affectionately licking
the wound in his masters face
| 'Prusco' is the name of a shep-
| herd dog that belong to an estafet who
carries orders along the lines with a
sidecar. "Prusco' sits alongside his
| master; whatever the pace and how
ever rough may be the route. he can
not be shaken from his post. The
| estafet received a bullet in his shout.
der the other day and was unable to
go on. He tucked the order which he
was to bring back to headquarters un-
der the dogs collar and finally per-
suaded him to start off with it. The
dog delivered his message and then
started back to find his master, &C.
companied by stretcher bearers, who
brought him safely back to the lines
Another dog who will go into the
history Of this war belongs to the Sec.
ond regiment of artillery. He guard.
the battery while the men are repos
ing and he keeps his seat on the gun
carriage when the battery is going into
position. If the road is so rough as t.
shake him off sometimes, then h,
leaps upon the horses backs. He il
never left behind.