DOGS OF WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 144, 21 June 1916, Page 5

DOGS OF WAR.

VALUABLE IN FRANCE WORKING ON RAILWAYS Received this day at 9 a.m. PARIS, June 20. Hundreds of Alaska and Labrador dogs, which during the winter rendered yeomen service, at Schlucht Pass, in drawing heavy loads over the almost inaccessible country for revictualling the French ta r re] ’ in the Vosges, are now harnessed to trucks on two foot light railways running everywhere behind the front up to the sharpest gradients. Eleven dogs and two men can pull a ton on precipitous slopes. Tw r o teams each of seven dogs are equal to five horses, with a great economy of men.