Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-11 | Page 15 | German Army has 6000 Dogs of War

GERMAN ARMY HAS 6000 DOGS OF WAR Use of Trained Animals in Battle Goes Back to Ancient. History Spec al Cab e to The Tribune LONDON Oct 10 However trite may be the saying that history repeats itself it is unquestionably oppos te in regard to the employment of dogs in warfare Great hounds were used to guard the camps at Bomo In even more primitive t mes they were for midable adversaries in hand to hand con flicts while to come to more modern days Tredenck the Great and Napo leon two of the greatest soldiers the world has ever seen held a very high op nion of the value of canine sen tr es Napoleon in fact is said to have urged Marmont to fasten dogs to stakes round the c rou t of the walls of Alexandr a to keep guard Kecent wars have served to cmpha s ze the advantages wh ch may be gained by the use of the pecul ar qual lties of scent and hearing which dogs possess Their sense of Scent we hu man be ngs lack almost entirely while they not only hear audible th ngs more quickly than we dp but also hear th ngs which are qu te inaudible to us Is t to be wondered at therefore that military experts have not been slow to recognize such potent properties? The present day tendency consequently conse-quently s to bring dogs more and more into the foreground in warfare Dur ins the Russo Japanese war the whole of the Manchurian railway line was guarded by dogs who gave the alarm and on several occasions prevented the Japanese crossing the 1 ne Those which were sent out from Eng and with the Abor expedition northwest fron t er more than once prevented the sen tr es from bo ng n shed during night duty, owing to their keener sense of hearing In the Tripoli oampa gn their value was frequently demonstrated while the war dogs belonging to Maor K chardson the famo s Scottish train er of war dogs rendered yeoman serv ice to the Bulgarians at the s ego of Adrianople where they were able to five warning of attempted sort es by he Turks me of Major E chard son a well trained animals were also used m the Span 6h trenches in Mo roeco being responsible for the f nd ng of hundreds or wounded men who would have otherwise been left to the r fate