Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-10
HEGRO'S IDEA
BEATS THE HUNS
CO. ceived in Georgia Village 1t
Bears Fruit In No Mans
Land.
DEiD FOX AIDS AND ABETs
Now Abraham Lincoln Davis Goes
Ha tgry to Feed Bunch of Ger
nan Messenger Dogs Lured
J. Into Trench.

WIN the Ameflcun ARMY Ill rfithSc'
of the two threads ont Of which
this yarn is spun one started in a lit.
tie village situatcN about 16 miles
inis nd from SavanI ~, Ga. and the
other started 10 the ice of the Ger
man high command In Merlin. In the
Gee rgia village-I don't recall the
nan,e of II nova pickaninny devel-
opc I the idea that the best kind of a
dog to chase a rabbit was a long
icgf ed dog. Likewise In the office OF
the German high commander there de-
veloped the Idea that a dog, having
considerable intelligence. would make
a better messenger than n German
soldier on the battlefield. and also
that IL a dog had long legs he would
be q faster messenger dog than Q mes
senger dog with short legs. ~
Threads Come rp7etfer.
SO the threads of the story started
far apart and stretched a long ways
to the French front, where the erst-
While ~pickanlnny Is q first-class pri-
vste In the army of his Uncle Samuel.
ufN Nnttt q cAoft ways ia thC pCA
man military dogs carry messages
back and forth to the Boche ~pillboxes
aad advanced posts. Abraham (Lin-
csln) Davis-his pals all call him Ike
-has lodged a lot OF German bullets
aud gas grenades.
Ike Hadn't been In the trenches long
before he began to hear about the Ger
man messenger dogs. Every now and
then. through a peephofe IN the tor OF
his trench. ne caught sight Of n Of
the messengers. although they genAr-
ally did their work at night. He &C.
veloped a respect and an admiration
for these dogs, and he could scarcely
choke down q fight when a sniper pick
ell Off one of the animals. When one
of the dogs was brought In after a
German raid, Ike made up his mind
that he had to have one of those dogs
to chase rabbits down In Georgia. I
don't believe he realized that he was
to k~ve a Kennel Of them.
II was an evening in early spring
when Ike was seated by the edge Of o
deep French well on the outskirts of a
dilapidated little village, where he was
binetcd during a rest period. He ssw
something leaping along the top OF a
hill q mile away. A second sight toad
him II was a fox. and then he forrJt
about 1t. The next night and the Dry
after Ike saw the fox. and her three
flashed through his mind the remeS
brnnce that a dog that chased a rabbit
chased a fox when he got a chance. 80
make this part of the story short. WREN
he went back TO the trenches a few
days later Ike had the fox. dead.
On the next two or three nights Ike
volunteered regularly for patrol duty
In No Mans Land. The third night
he got permission and took the dead
fox With him.
Gets Results at Last.
On tho third night after he started
pntroIlIns with his dead fox, he got re-
suits. EIt let the next part Of the
story be told by Ike's commanding Of
ficer. wish 1 could mention his name
but the censorship rules forbid.
at vas along about 4 o'clock In the
morning." this officer said, "just after
of our patrols had come in. / re-
member 1t was raining Slightly. The
patrol reported 1t hPd encountered no
Germans and ihai things seemed rath-
er quiet. I vas about to go away when
there was a scrambling underneath
our wire and a German messenger dog
popped over the edge OF the trench
and right into the arms Of one Of our
Ibig buck p~rivates. named Davis. The
2og had a message around his neck d.
cted to n Of the pill boxes. telling
gunners there that American pa
we're out. / took the message and
to lead the dog away to have
my orderly take care of 1t when Ike
begged for It so earnestly that I told
him to watch II while I got some sleep.
'T forgot all about the dog and was
thinking of home and mother some
hours later when n OF the lieuten-
ants reported that during the night six
other German dogs had come into our
trench at about the same place and
that Ike had been near enough to grab