The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-07-13

WIN dog and has conferred upon
A~ the venerable and sinister
M1N phrase "let loose the dogs
@A-A0 of war" new and softened
meaning.
The dogs Of the French army are
force to be reckoned with. They are
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
successes. They have saved the lives
Of thousands Of soldiers by their intel
ligence and devotion, by their courage
and address. They have given their
limbs, they have given their health,
they have given their lives. They
have 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-
fit Of their hospitals and convalescent
homes. Their delegates were enthu-
siastically cheered at the Palace Of
the Trocadero by an audience of over
5000 persons Including 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
g nd T11itt
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, were put at the DISPOSE
ton of the sanitary department of the
Army of the Societe Rationale du
Chen Sanitaire. After short stay at
Longchamp, they were sent to the
front, where they conducted them
selves, on the whole, exceedingly well.
epic" was brought down by German
bullet in Argonne "Toby," alias
NCrapouillot," died from a shell wound
received at Vic-sur-Tourbe. KAISER"
"Kronprinz" and "Francois-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
to the sanitary department, and now
not hundreds but thousands are sue
coring the wounded between Newport
and Alsace. "Prlnce," a superb Alsa-
tian wolf, the first dog to have his coat
dyed in the interests of invlsibility |
and still In the service, saved five
wounded men in single day at Vau-
quois. pax" blind and paralyzed and
'Invalided" in due form because Of
these inffrmities contracted In the serv-
ice, has the rescue of more than two
hundred wounded to his credit. On
the other hand, Cadet" efficient sing
". 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 a Boche dog, he pounces upon
him, masters him, grips him by the
ear and brings him to the trench as
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 |
10 fetch to the brancardier KEPT or a |
handkerchief. But the handkerchief OF
the soldier is very apt to be In
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 a dog to remove the latter.
when II is held on by a chln-strap, as
IL almost always is. So II has become
customary to have the dog fetch any
object whatever .(pipe, handkerchief,
helmet briquet, tobacco pouch, car
fridge box, bit Of uniformly, save a
bandage, which he is taught to scrupu-
lousy respect.
Surprising Canine Versatility.
The "sanIrary dogs" having bsfn
frst In the field, thanks to the ante
bellum prepared0ess efforts Of the So