Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-11-04
DOGS Do GREAT
WORK in WAR
Perform Great Variety # Tasks
With SagaCity and Intel
llgenCe.
GAVE MANY WOUNDED MEN
Correspondents Tell Many Stories of
Remarkable Feats of CANNES
One on Outpost Duty Banks
Warning Into Telephone.


Parls.-No medals are pinned on the
breasts of the dogs of war, but they
nave played a wonderful part as as
sistants to the ambulance corps, on
patrol duty carrying dispatches, and
dragging machine guns into action for
the Belgfans and others.
In addition to their work on the bat
tlefield, dogs did much to aid refugees.
Ihey took their masters and their
families out of the line of invasion.
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 adj
vance through Belgium.
Just how many wounded men on
both sides of the firing line have been
saved by sheep dogs and other breeds
probably never will he known These
dogs have been trained TO search for
wounded, and by taking a mans cap
to headquarters in the field a trained
nurse or doctor follows the dog, who
leads back to the place where the
man is lying. Frequently wounded
man with his last ounce of strength
Will use it TO drag himself out Of the
line of fire. 1t is in the out-of-the-way
places that the dog has been particu-
uarly valuable.
Training War Dogs
Europe has been training dogs for
years to the work which they did upon
the battlefield.
Those trained dogs Immediately be-
came attached to the Red Cross work
and many of them gave up their lives
| in aiding humans.
There Is a story told of Belgium
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 section.
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 gunners escaped.
Sergeant Major Pouissigue's dog
Artemis was wounded in the Argonne.
Lying beside his master in the trench
at listening post he smelled the Ger
man advance guards and Indicated a
warning of the enemy's approach.
Sergeant Pouissigue ordered the dog
back to warn the regiment to be on
the alert. The dog however. refused
TO go. when suddenly there was a
slight noise behind the listening sol
der and Artemis sprang over the para
pet and flung himself at the throat of
q German soldier In the fight between
man and beast q bullet went through
his right front leg. Later the dog re-
covered.
On another occasion, when his mas
ter was attached to the Ninety-fourth
regiment of infantry in the Ypres sec
tor, the soldier was having fierce
hand-to-hand fight afth one German
while the other was slipping up to
bayonet him from behind. Artemis
leaped at the latter's throat and fin
tshed him. The dogs master also got
the better Of his adversary.
/ SomeSHero Dogs.
Other dogs which deserve medals
for their work are Marquis, which
! carried message around his neck to
a far-Off detachment, arriving breath
| less and painting at his destination only
TO die Stop of the Fifteenth army
corps. which saved many lives by his
activities. and Flora of the Twelfth
| Alpine chaSseurs. which did linking
work for two days, running under a
/ rain of shellhre.
The French war department has on
! record a letter from the father of a
| family who wrote saying: II already
have three sons apd q sOn-in-law with
the colors; now l give my dog, and
yive la France!"
| Dogs on both sides do sentry duty at
! night, carry messages back TO line with
| more security than men and give mo-
| tice of the advance Of the enemy by
barking. These dogs are trained to
bark whenever a stranger approaches
within 200 yards, and surprise attacks
have often been frustrated by this ad-
vance knowledge.
According to the Gazette de Franco
a certain French regiment possesses a
dog which is sent out from advanced
! sentry posts at night with telephone
strapped orer his mouth and a wire
| connecting the instrument with the
post. If the dog hears the Germans
approaching he barks quietly into the
| telephone.
Sentenced to 81 Years.
| Pitman, n. Judge Schwekhamer