NEW AEROPLANE DETECTOR
The ability of many dogs to identify their owners’ motor-cars by the sound of their engines when they are still a considerable distance away is common knowledge, but an instance of even keener intelligence on the part of a dog is related by Sapper Johnston, who is attached to a New Zealand engineering corps in the Middle East, in a letter to his parents in Portobello. Sapper Johnston ' states that this dog, a small terrier of no particular breed, can distinguish'unerringly between the sound of an Axis aeroplane and a British machine. When an Axis aeroplane is approaching in the distance, Sapper Johnston writes, the terrier sets up a loud and excited barking, and it is then time to bolt for cover, while if the machine is a British one the dog is quite undisturbed and remains silent,
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 145, 23 October 1942, Page 2
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