Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-03-21

for Tn five dogs he brougt over. The
j cuStomc officials would not believe
him, however. They put II vaulatiou
of $1,000 on each dog, and wanted to
collect 20 per cent. duty. Arrange.
ments were made to bring in the
dogs and the City Controller agreed
to let them see the bill when it was
presented.
"Whcn / got the BILL" Controller
Metz remarked. at the time, 81 sent
word to the Custom House that, ii
they would send an Inspector up,
would let them copy the bill. The
Inspector came, glanced ut the bill
ana went away with disgusted
look"
Little has appeared anywhere, for
obvious reasons, about the work of
dogs as sentincls, patrol aids and in
the carrying OF spatches-impor-
tant work when speed means the saw
ing of human lives and where il would
pe Impossible FOR human beings TO
get through alive.
To get an idea of the work CT thc
scout, sentinel, and la:Hon dor, let
them he properly introduced. as they
were honorcd before French rcgi-
monts, behind the front, when their
deeds were told to the poilu in review
formations:
Hector No. % b, scout dog: AT
the farm of Boise Brules, where the
enemy lay hidden, no patrol dared
venture. A dog and man started for
it MT night. Hector went twenty yards
in front of the poiM. Approaching
the farm he gave no sign of worry,
and continued. Tio place had been
suddenly abandoned. French tclcg-
laphers hastily took charge Two tel
cphone calls at dawn and an impor-
tant enemy rcdouht was pulvcrized.
Titinc, No. II b, dog sentinel:
In the Vosgos, q battalion had bor-
rowcd rs sentinel one of our partic-
ularly intelligent dogs. In her first
week Titine saved two sentinels by
her warnings and III Il month eleven,
In each case from actual attack,
which was escaped. She lost no SEN
tinel in the region where the bat
talon, previously without dogs, had
lost MS high rs seven scntincis in
nine days.
Mcdor. No. 6 +, laison 0or: Ga
Sept. 28, 1917, was HtiuciS by IL shrll
scrap. He accomplished one and
quarter miles under curtain fire to
carry an order Of thr brigade to n
Colonel; was wouadcd, yet drugcal
himself to the commanding post,
where he died fifteen minutes rfrer.
Let an American Corporal tell how
Germans dog foicd him. with
two privates the Corporal left large
patrol in Il certain place in nm ahnn-
doned trench in Nc Nuns Land. They
first found IL smooth wire barrier
which had been shot to pieces by the
American fire. Further on they came
upon German cntanglcments Of wire
twenty feet deep, with four pointed
barbs. The men were inspecting I'M
opening in the wine when II dog, APP
parently chained on the other side,
began to bark. a dugout opened up
quickly in trench and IL grulr voice
was heard TO say, "fertig," meaning
"rendy." Suddenly II brilliant rocket
went up and the Americans threw
themselves flat on the ground just
as machine gun began to spit bull
away heavy object struck the earth.
which had been hurled from the Ger
main trench. 1t had failed to go oil.
The soldiers stayed where they were
N'hti WV tSNSShp Si-tl NHty
made their way back TO the larger
patrol of which they were n part and
reported.
An officer just back tells how
sentry dog, supplied TO his battalion,
worked when he took it out ON patrol
duty. at WAS dark night" he said,
"and VIC moved along for some time
and saw nothing. Suddenly the dog
stopped dead, pointed, and gave low
growl. We Immediately lay motion
less on the ground. Two Germans
rose up as if out of the ground in
front of us and they were immc-
diately bnynotcd by our men,"
Dog required special training for
sentry work. The dogs hearing is
effective at n distance of 100 to i50
yards. His place at night was in n
hole made by shells, behind rock
or tree or in ditch He did not bark
in this kind of service. He growled
deeply, or gave some sign, such as
scratching the ground, moving his
tail, or pricklng up his ears to indi-
cate that something was taking
place. The human sentinlc imme-
diately wns on guard.
Sentry duty was taught by making
the dog stay in one position and look
in one direction. The sentries were
the most silent army in the world.
The dogs had n division of their own,
organized, stated and equipped, like
any other branch Of the service. They
had their drills, parades, and ma
nocuvring grounds, their administra-
tive centre, cookhouse, dressing sta
ton, and hospital. They lived in the
huts with no front wall, and each dog
had his own kennel.
Artemis, at one time attached TO
the 94th Regiment of Infantry in the
Ypres sector, once saved the life of
the Captain he was attached to, and
later, during the Grown Princes Of
feusive on tho Heights of the Meuse,
on night patrol and sentinel duty, he
saved the life of his master, Sergeant
Major Poussiguc. In the Ypres sec
tor his Captain was fighting one Ger
man when another slipped up behind
him with his baynoet ready to use it.
The dog leaped at the throat of the
second German and brought him
down just as the Captain finished off
the first asasiant.
Both Sergeant Major PJoussigue
and the dog were lying in listening
post whom suddenly Artemis bepan to