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Show FRENCH SHEEP DOGS ARE USED AT FRONT Faithful Animals Prove of Good Service and Do Their Work With Wonderful Won-derful Intelligence. Special Cable to The Tribune. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Jan. 1. One of the most interesting in-teresting of the subsidiary establishments of the French army is that of the French sheep dogs, which are being employed in ambulance and patrol work. There are only about twenty-five of them. The dos;s are of five breeds "Malinois," "Gronendael," "Bar Rouge," "Briare" and "Berfer Allemand," of which the last is said to be the least intelligent. The original idea was that they should be employed only on ambulance work, but it was soon, found possible to use them for taking back messages from advanced parties to the rear. Training has to be begun when the dogs are very young. The first thing, of course, is implicit obedience. Then it is a question of training them not to fear gun fire. Once trained, they show themselves them-selves absolutely fearless, and so far from recoiling from a shell-burst, they usually rush forward and bark furiously at It. On ambulance work they perform much the same duties as those of St. Bernard. They are sent out to scour the ground, and when they have found a wounded man they bring back some article of his apparel. A doctor and two orderlies are then detailed to follow the doe, which brings them to the place where the wounded man Is lying. The following story is told of "Fanfare," "Fan-fare," one of the "Bar Rouge" breed: The dog was carrying a message from the front line to the rear when he was very badly hit in the foreleg by shrapnel. As soon as he had pulled himself together te limped on to his destination on three legs, Hnd then Insisted on returning to the front patrol who had originally sent him out. In the course of the evening he was sent to Paris, where his wounds I were dressed, and he is now back again at the fmnt. |