DOG TRAINS IN THE VOSGES
sSPLENDID WOE.X BEHIND FRENCH ■ FRONT. (Received June.2l, 8.40 a.m.) PAKIS, 20th June. Hundreds of Alaskan, and . Labrador dogs, which during the winter rendered yeomen service at Schliich Pass, drawing heavy loads over almost inaccessible country, revicttualling the French Army in tho Vosges, are now harnessed to trucks on two feet gauge light railways running everywhere behind the front and up the sharpest gradients. . Eleven dogs and two men .pull a ton up precipitous slopes. Two teams, each of seven dogs, equal five horses, with a great economy in men. -
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 146, 21 June 1916, Page 7
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