DOGS IN WARTIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 264, 8 November 1939, Page 9

DOGS IN WARTIME.

TRAINED TO RESCUE WORK.

BIG ORGANISATION PLANNED. (Special.'—By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 14. Dogs are destined to plav a big part in this war, if the proposals submitted to the War Office by Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Richardson, are adopted. During the last war he trained 2000 dogs for service with the British Army and once again he wants to help.

"He already has some dogs in training," declared his wife this week. ""He would have liked to have kept a nucleus of trained dogs, but that has not been possible. He lias plans for a big organisation.

"The three branches of war work in which dogs are most useful are as: (1) Sentries moving with the troops and going on duty with them: (2) guards at vulnerable posts; and (;>) messengers. They could be very u.-eful in the present form of artillery warfare in carrying messages from observation posts back to the Willis.''

Dogs attaclii'.i to the French forces not only locate wounded but are also dispatch carriers, with special pouches attached to their collars. Thev are trained to keep close to the ground in dangerous zones and take shelter in trenches.