DOGS IN WARFARE.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 15

DOGS IN WARFARE.

Tho further employment of dogs in wnrfuic is htrougly urged in tho Nineteenth Century by Major E. 11. ltichnrdbon, who feels no compunction in introducing man's faithful companion lo tho battlefield. Aro tho dogs also lo light is a question that suggests itself. In sitrngu warfare dogs aro extremely uhoful, and havo been used by both French and ltufisiims. The general system of savage warfare lies in ambuscades. In Mexico, in (ho guerilla war, a colonel of volunteers trained some dogs, who gave tho guerilla insurgents ii warm time. If they tried uinbuslics I hey were scented out, nnd their plans failec] ; if they retreated into the depths of tho woods they were tracked out by Ihe dogs, und uttacked when preparing to camp for the night. Two hundred dogs, chiefly sheep-dogs, aro at present attached to Uie Gorman forces operating in ITerrero under General yon Tiolhit. Ono of thorn, Flock, has been sent homo lo Iviel invalided. F£o was wounded by a bullet in llio engagement, of Opnjbo, while scouting in front of tlio skirmishing line. He displayed tho greatest fearlessness under fire, and worked faultlessly until disabled. Tho Japanese aio using a. number of dogs for reconnoitring purposes j they are attached 10 long ropes and well trained. Tho Itttssjnns ore employing dogs for. sentry and messenger work. Captain Pcrsidsky, of the late Count Keller's slnll, says : — "In finding thq wounded men with which tho millct-fiolda arc strewn, nothing has succeeded like our seven dogs ; their intelligence, especially tlm English-bred "ones, is extraordinary." 11 is possibly us adjuncts of Ihe Itod Cross organisation that the. friends of tho dog would moi>t liko to see him concerned with warfare