The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-27
DOCS PLAYING AN INVALUABLE PART
 IN EUR0PE'S WAR
Animals Succor Wounded,
 Do Sentry Duty and Prove Their Worth.

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 Paris, Oct 27-No medals are pin ned on the breasts of the dogs of war. but they have played a wonder full part as assistants to the, ambu lance corps, on patrol duty, carrying dispatches, and dragging machine guns into action for the Belgians and others 5--
 In addition to their work on the battlefield dogs did much to aid refu- gees They took their masters and their families out of the line of in. vasions.
 War correspondents have told how much sagacity and courage the Bel gian draught dogs displayed upon the battlefield at Haelen, where with the aid of the Lewis machine gun they held back for time the German ad- vance through Belgium
 Just how many wounded men on both >sides of the firing line have been saved by sheepddgs and other breeds probably never will be known. These dogs have been trained to search for wounded, and by taking mans cap to headquarters in the field trained nurse or doctor follows the dog, who leads back to the place where the man is lying. Frequently a wounded man with his last ounce of strength will use it to drag himself ot1t-of the line of fire It is in the out of the way places that the dogs have been particularly valuable.
 Europe has been training dogs for, years to the work which they did up- on the battlefield
 These trained dogs immediately be- came attached to the Red Cross work and many of them gaxe up their lives in aiding humans
 There is a story told of Belgian dogs which aided their masters The Belgians, surrounded so that it seemed hopeless to break through, probably would have been destroyed but for the idea of a captain in charge of what was left of the machine gun Aection. He gave orders to loose the dogs from the guns, and to encourage the dogs to- fling themselves upon the enemy. The dogs did it with such telling effect that they made lane through which some of the Belgian gunpers escaped
 Serg.-Major Pouissigue's dog Ar tennis was wounded in the Argonne. Lying beside his master in the trench at listening post he smelled the German advance guards and indicated a warning of the enemy's approach. Pouissigue ordered the. dog btck to warn the regiment to be on the alert. The dog, however. refused to go, when suddenly there was a slight noise be- hind the listening soldier and Artenis sprang over the parapet and flung himself at the throat of a German sol- dier. In the fight between man and beast a bullet went through his right leg. Later the dog recovered.
 On another occasion, when his master was attached to the Ninety fourth regiment of infantry in the Ypres sector,sthe soldier was having a fierce hand to hand fight with one German while the other was slipping up to bayonet him from behind. Ar tennis 1eaped at the latter's throat. and finished him. The dogs master also got. the better of his adversary.
 Other dogs which deserve medals for their work are Marquis, which carried a message around his neck to far off detachment, arriving breath less and panting to his destination only to die; Stop of the Fifteenth Army Corps, which sahev many lives. by his activities, and Flora of the Twelfth Alpine Chasseurs, which did linking work for two days, running under a rain of shellfire &
 The French war department has on record a letter from the father of a family who wrote saying: "I already have three sons and a son-in-law with the co1ors; now give my dog, and vive la France" = Dogs on both sides do sentry, duty at night, carrying messages back to lines with more security than men and give notice of the advance of the enemy by barking. These dogs are trained to bark whenever a stranger approaches within 200 yards. and sur prise. attacks have often been frus- trated by this advance knowledge.
 According to the Gazette de France 8 certain French regiment possessed a dog which is sent out from advanced sentry posts at night with a telephone strapped over his mouth and a. wire connecting the instrument with the post. If the dog hears the Germans approaching he barks quietly into the telephone.