Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 6 | Miscellany

Miscellany i Even Dogs Help Fight This War. "Unloosing" the dogs of war" la more than a metaphoric expression, for dogs have played a useful part in the struggle strug-gle of the nations. The great dogs of the Belgians are used to draw machine guns and in other light transport tasks. Numbers of them who went barking out to war when the Germans invaded the little kingdom are now dead, along with their masters, but the Belgian soldiers sol-diers still have many four-footed servitors ser-vitors one might better say comrades who have been through it all and are war-hardened veterans. Dogs are used by the Red Cross to search out the wounded, and they have at times given valuable aid in this work of mercy. In the mountain warfare of the Vosges the French have in active service hundreds of "huskies" from Alaska, Alas-ka, used to draw sledges over the snoy-clad snoy-clad mountain passes. The American dags : have taken kindly to their new work, although al-though their French drivers havo had to learn certain English words not nil of them printable as the ferocious beasts I refuse to pay attention to commands in French. Jack Monroe, the former America n pugilist, who wpiit to war with the Princess Pat, emerged from the struggle minus an arm. but with his faithful dog still at his heels, and the animal has rxn given a war medal. Will Irwin, correspondent corre-spondent of the Saturday -Fvening Post, tells of a "tiny mongrel" captured by the Canadians in a German trench. He says that "the little traitor is as fond of the colonel and his nifsa as though he had been barking for England all his days." New York World.