DOGS IN WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 4

DOGS IN WAR.

iMajor E. H. Richardson, who returned to England front a, second visit to tho Balkan war area, for the? purpose of finding out how far dogs have keen of service in the war, told a representative of the “Army and Navy

Gazette” that at the siege of Adrian-

oplo the Bulgarians used dogs in i rout of their trenches at night as a preventative against the Turkish sorties. According to the Bulgarian officers the dogs gave good results. The dogs were either put in front about two hundred yards or kept in roughlymade kennels of brandies of trees near the sentries. The dogs used were the Albanian sheep dogs, whose ordinary work made them very useful) for this purpose, as they have to lie, out at a certain distance motionless away from the flocks to protect then against wolves, and, strangely enoug the shepherd takes the safest posi tion of lying down in the middle ol the flock. The irregular Macedonia! bands also employ a number of dogs Major Richardson also saw dogs witl the Greek army at Salonica and witl the Servian cavalry. The Servians em ployed dogs at Monastic and Kama novo. He visited the Tchataldja lirieiand Gallipoli, but did not see any dogs used there. At the Russian frontier where the Russians are at presen semi-mobilised, Major Richardson found they were using a number o: dogs, the Afcharki and Laiki—the twr Russian breeds of sheep dogs. Tin Austrians, mobilised at the Bosnia am 1 Herzegovinian frontier, also employer 1 dogs.