Dogs in Warfare.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7827, 20 May 1905, Page 2

Dogs in Warfare.

Vhe further employment of dog* fa warfare is strongly urged i n the Kine- > teonth Century by Major E. H. Uk*ardson, who feels no compunction In- a introducing man's faithful cotupttiMl * to the battlefield. Are Iho dog* also lu light ? is u question that wiggerta itHCll. y In savage warfare dogs nt* exUttne* ly useful, and have been used by tte I'i'unch 11 ml Hussion*. The general system of savage warfare lies ia am-

buscade.*. In Mexico, lu the guerilla 1 wnr, u culoue] of volunteers trained ■ some dogs, who gave the guerilla in- I (•urgent* a wann time. If thev tried I ambuscades they wore scented out. fc I

and their pluus failed; if they r©- •*§ I treated into the doping of the wood* I they wem tracked out by (he dugs, mid attacked when prcpurlng to<caina.^ B f a H for the night. Two hundred dogs, chiefly ahc*ra*"*aWß [•logs uiv at present attached to Inn ji.'iriiutii torn* operating in Henna l,i>nd, under (leiui-al von Trolha. On« pf them, Flock, has boon «cnt horn* to Kiel Invalided. He ww wounded, by u bullet in the engagement of OpuJlbo, when scouting in front of the skirmishing line, lie ditylayat the greatest fearlessness under fm. mid worked faultlessly until disabled! The Japanese are using a number of dogN fcr reConuoitlSm )Hirpo*e«; they are attached to long rope* and weft trained.. The Museums) are emafagring dogs fo* miry and iMawoaajer work. fMptain Persldsky. of the late .*- Count Kellers man", wire]—"H» finding the wounded men wlla vbiehj iniilict-fleldß are irtrewa. aotMnc ham *.™ succeeded Itko our own seven dog« V^ liaMirod ones, la extNoH^ry. , 'fP&ia po«*tb|y «a adjunct* <tfJH» Bad Cross organelle* tlwiJlj^jJMoßAi^,^