Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-06
DOGS d Var inReaZLlf e
Trained ANNALS Of tie
French army MScoUer
tie zO04nded and eUen
capture German days
as prisoners =. MaRY
0ftHem haze teen green
great military honotS

great military h0Aof5
cS> HIS strange war has forth
n fed and enriched immeas-
urably the beautiful pact of
friendship concluded ages
I'D ago between man and the
0/IM dog and has conferred upon
H(XS the venerable and sinister
& IN phrase '9et loose the dogs
s-S$G4-O of war" a 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 III Argonne, on the Somme,
on the User, in the Vosges. They have
contributed appreciably to divers local
successes. They have saved the lives
of thousands of soldiers by their intel
dgence ana 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 Gncluding 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 S. 2. c. A.. And a committee has
been formed TAT the instlgation 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, weDe put at the DISPOSE
ton of the sanitary department of the
Army of the Societe Rationale du
Longchamp, they were sent to the
front, where they conducted them
selves, on the whole, exceedingly well.
pic" was brought down by a German
| bullet in Argonne. Toby" alias
"Crapouillot." died from she'll wound
received at Vic-sur-Tourbe. KAISER"
"Kronprinz" and "Francois-Jo 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
| 0ughly trained dogs were turned over
30 the sanitary department, and now
not hundreds but thousands are sue
| eoring the wounded between Newport
and Alsace. prince" a superb Alsa-
tian wolf, the first dog to have his coat
| dyed in the interests of inviSibiity,
| md still in the service, saved FIVE
| wounded men in a single day at Vau-
| auois. "Pax," blind and .paralyzed and
| Sinvalided" in due form because of
| these inf1rmities 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 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
to fetch to the brancardier a kept or a
| handkerchief. But the handkerchief of
the soldier is very apt to be in a
! 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-
/ Stble Tor uOg 10 TeIuONe tle IdtteT'
| 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
l fridge box, bit of uniformly, save
handage, which he Is taught to scrupu-
lousy respect.
Surprising canine Versatility.
The sanitary dogs" having been
! first in the field, thanks to the ante
belIum preparedness efforts of The So