Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-07-06
DoQ5 Of War inRealLife
Irulned Annals of tie
French army dlscoUer
We zO0unded and eUen
capture German days
as prisoners =, MANY
ofkhem haze beeng
great military h0nors

SICUL WLIIIU/V HOHO/S
~ HIS strange war has forth
~ fed and enriched immeas-
r urably the beautiful pact or
~ friendship concluded ages
En ago between man and the
WYNN dog and has conferred upon
NT% the venerable and sinister
AN phrase ''let loose the dogs
of war; q new and softened
meaning.
The dogs of the French army are
force to be reckoned with. They are a
really necessary cog in the big army
machine. They have distinguished
themselves In ArgOnne, on the Somme,
on the Yser in the Vosges. They have
contributed appreciably to divers local
p successes. They have saved the lives
of thousands of soldiers by their intel
Hgence and devotion, by their courage
and address. They have given their
limbs, they have given their health,
they have given their lives. They
nave been cited on the rosters of their
companies, their battalions, their regi-
ments. They have been decorated.
Their virtues have been celebrated by
the cinema, by the newspapers and IL
Illustrated magazines and by the novel.
Festivals have been held for the bene-
mt OF their hospitals and convalescent
MONIES. Their delegates were enthu-
Siastically cheered at the Palace of
the Trocadero by an audience of over
QUO persons Uncluding many wound
ed soldiers from the military hospitalS)
on the occasion of the last annual
meeting of the S. P. A (Societe Protec-
trice des Animaux, corresponding to
our 5. +. G. Al. And a committee has
been formed Cat the instigation of
their twO-fOoted comrades-in-arms) for
the erection of a monument in their
honor.
Saviors of the Wounded.
AT the moment of the mobilization,
$50 dogs, specially trained to rescue
the wounded We're put at the DISPOSE
ton of the sanitary department of the
Army of the SOciete Rationale du
Chen Sanitaire. After a short stay at
Longchamp. they were sent to the
front, where they conducted them
selves, on the whole, exceedingly well.
'fPic' was brought down by a German
bullet in Argonne. Toby" alias
"Crapouillot," died from "a shell wound
received at Vic-sur-Tourbe. KAISER"
'Kronprinz' and Joseph
names given in derisiOn, because of
fancied resemblance to the sovereigns
of the adversaries-served zealously
and fell upon the field of honor.
In 1915, mainly on the initiative of
the S. p. A. and the Anti-Vivisection
league, some three hundred more thor
oughly trained dogs were turned over
70 the sanitary department, and now
not hundreds but thousands are sue
coring the wounded between Newport
and Alsace. Prince" superb Alsa-
titan WOLF the first dog to have his coat
dyed In the interests OF inviSibility,
and still in the service, saved five
wounded men In a single day at Vau-
auois. PAX" blind and paralyZed and
"invalided" in due form because Of
these infirmities contracted in the serv
ice, has the rescue of more than two
hundred wounded to his credit. On
the other hand, Cadet" efficient sing
ly. but too ill-tempered for team work,
has developed a speciality altogether
his own, that of gathering In" the
dogs of the enemy. When Cadet"
spies Boche dog he pounces upon
him, masters him, grips him by the
Il q h. %y.As, NI
prisoner.
The sanitary dog" scours the battle
field in quest of the wounded. When
he discovers a suffering soldier he
falls back on the brancardier to
whom he is attached and makes plain
by his attitude that his services are
needed. AT the outset he was taught
to fetch to the brancardier Il kept or a
handkerchief. But the handkerchief of
the soldier is very apt to be in
tightly-buttoned pocket and he may
have lost his kept. Furthermore the
kept has been replaced largely by the
heavy helmet, and 1t is next TO impos-
sible for dog TO remove the latter,
when it is held on by chin-strap, as
II almost always is. So 1t has become
customary to have the dog fetch any
object whatever (pipe, handkerchief,
helmet. briquet, tobacco pouch, car
fridge box, bit of uniformly, save
,bandage. which he is taught TO scrupu-
lousy respect.
Surprising Canine Versatility.
The sanitary dogs" having been
first in the field, thanks TO the ante
ballum preparedness efforts of the So