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Show uu ffiBMIS USING DOG WIEW American Patrols Have Narrow Nar-row Escape When Barking Announces Their Proximity. FALL FLAT TO GROUND U.S. Soldiers Hear Talk Which Corporal, Fortunately, Was Able to Understand. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN PRANCE, Feb. 8. (By the Associated Press.) The Germans are using dogs in their front lines to warn them of the approach of patrols opposite the American sector. A German dog "listener" "lis-tener" early this morning prevented one of our patrols from executing a daring strike. Two corporals who were concerned in it have been mentioned men-tioned in official reports for their spirit and coolness. Accompanied by two privates the corporals left a large patrol in a cer-tai cer-tai place in an abandoned trench in No Man's Land last midnight and went on to the German lines. They first found a smooth wire barrier which had been shot to pieces by the American Amer-ican fire. Fifteen yards further on they came upon German entanglements entangle-ments of wire twenty feet deep with four-pointed barbs. , Dog Gives Alarm. Tho men were inspecting an opening open-ing in the wire when a dog, apparently appar-ently chained on the other side, began to bark.T A dugout door opened quickly in a trench and a gruff voice was heard to say "Fertlg! Fertig!" moaning moan-ing ready. Suddenly a brilliant rocket went up and the Americans throw themselves flat on tho ground just as a machine gun began to spit bullets in their direction. A few feet away a heavy object struck the ground. ,This was found later to be a bomb which had been hurled from the German Ger-man trench. The corporals stayed where they tvere for some time and listened to the German soldiers talk among themselves. them-selves. One of the corporals knows German and speaks it so that what the Germans said was understood. After the Germans retired again to their dugout the smaller patrol joined the larger one, which soon after was tho target for fifteen or twenty German Ger-man shells but no one was hit. Mumps again have appeared in the trenches. A number of the soldiers are afflicted and one of the numerous corps of correspondents. ' |