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INTELLIGENT RED-CROSS-

DOGS.

THEIR TRAINING AND WORK.

The dogs of war" in these days are ferocious but helpful. It is estimated by Ellwood Hendrick, writing in the Red Utos Magazine, that the vari- Que combatants now have in training come ten thousand dogs doing Red-Cross work. Prior to the war, the number could prob- ably have been written with two figures Many breeds are used, but the best physi- Scal

type seems to be of medium size.

THE NEW RUSSIA AND THE ARMY.

SEDITION FAST VANISHING

The impressions of visit to Biga justify the hope of the maintenance of the discipline and officiency of the Russian Army during the difficult period which sudden revolutionary necessarily fellows as upheaval and the introduction of a new

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MONDAY, MAY 2197, 1917.

THE AULD ALLIANCE.

SCOTLAND AND FRANCE

When the Scot, housewife orders from her butcher a Sigote of mutton and serves it, cooked, on an "anhet," she is unconscious of any intention to use strange words of clearly French orgin

form of government, wrote the Petrograd President Wilson's speech to Congress, When the Scotsman takes umbrage at his correspondent of the Times on March calling upon Amerien to make war neighbour and proceeds to legal action

7th I may say, without exaggeration,

Consols, and indeed against the offender, he is unaware that that the officers and men realize their against Germany.

strong, grey or black, all Government securities, immediately he sets in motion the machinery of a

gut. Across between bull dog and Allies. The continuation of the war with

iB said to be desirable; so are undiminished vigour will be their first advanced, while in the Money Market an system derived from Roman Law through sheep-dogs, retrievers, pointers, large duty. They are confident that as free men easier tendency was at once apparent, the France. When his children celebrate Now Airedales, and many out-and-out cura," they will soon be able to exert their. every time, just as they do on the human better organization in the rear and the tion in this country might become easier and demand a monetary gift as "Hogma- character and training outweigh ancestry energies with redoubled vigour, thanks to belief being held that the monetary pogi Year's Day in preference to Christmas,

united work of the mhole nation:

in consequence of the action of the United nay," they know not that French children side of the war. Says Mr. Hendrick:

Sedition

propaganda is fast losing its

delight in celebrating the same day and sway over the minds oven of the most States.

Inasmuch as it is generally conceded in worrying their knowledge of

parents for an the situation spreads t

EXEMY OR FRIEND.

dogs, as the Germans call them, are first ignorant, and as sough the armies that America is unlikely to be in a posi éyummend. Yet all those similarities of

the

man.

French and Scottish custom and language are existent. They tell of an alliance, now long dead as a political factor, but revived, in a sense, on French battlefields when the old Allies again fight side by

England, and particularly Edward I. Malleus Scotorum, by acts of aggression

Thess Army, or

ог Red-Cross, or sanitary trained to distinguish between the uni- form of their country and that of unemies, the Provla hroughout the country, eation for some long time to come to give Then, the dog must learn the importance firmer hold throughout the country. of a wounded man as being his principal the Minister of War and Marine mit any material military assistance to the business in life News of the wounded with a rousing reception from the garri bust also he brought to his master. He sen and inhabitants at Pakoff yesterday. Allies, it may be well to explain quite must not bark, because the enemy always In response to his eloquent appoal to the simply to those have not closely followed shoots. There are various ways in which nation and the Army to unite and con- the financial aspect of the war why it is

dog sells his master of his discovery tinue the war in defence of their new. method is, if no wounded have been liberties, the delegates of the soldier, that the abandonment by the United side. discovered, to trot back lie down, whereus officers and workmen solemnly declared States of neutrality in favour of direct if he has found a

their determination not to waver in the wounded man be urges

co-operation with the Allies was hailed in the master to follow.truendous cheers the Minister withdrew many quarters yesterday as evidence that

struggle with the external fo

Amill United States Talbot Albert, of Brunswick, tells of a method in to a small room in the station, where he economic victory in the struggle now against France and Scotland, brought use in the Gerinan Army in which the conferred with the Executive Committee proceeding was practically assured these two countries together in a defen- It should be clearly understood that sive allianes. Contemporary chroniclers dogs have a short strap buckled to their of the soldiers and officers' delegates. collars, and they are trained when they The members of the Committee invited me when President Wilson spoke of his would have us believe that reciprocity was 1541 find wounded man in hunting over the to attend the conference, and afterwards, battlefield at night, to grasp the straps at their special request, I went with them country rendering financial assistance to in existance prior to the reign of the first the Allies he was not referring at all to Plantagenet, and that Wallace wight was to their committee room. in their mouths and so return, thus signi-

loats of money in the linary sense of in lose touch with France throughout fying that there is

They asked me to explain to them the the word. Roughly, it might be said that his life, performing feats of incredible in uniform alive out there. Then they

the way back attitude of their Allies towards the new all the belligerents, including Germany, valour in Gaul But we hesitate when lend to him. This invention was necessary to rene, and put other questions dealing have ample resources so far as actual one records his encounter with and sub- overcome an evil that became evident with the conduct of the war. I assured them money at home is concerned, for carrying sequent victory over a lion in Guinne. among dogs taught to retrieve; that is, to that unbounded satisfaction had prevailed bring back some piece of clothing belong among the Allies over the downfall of the the war for an almost indefinite If Wallace had any business in France. period, because as soon as the proceeds of it was purely political and leading up ink to the wounded man-his hood, firm hope and belief that the new Russia being still within the country, becomes signed in 1998, after the check to Eng old incompetent Government, and our one great loan are expended the money, to the first articlate Treaty which was or something from the neighbourhood. im nga us to achieve & completo and after a bort period, for fish activities at Bannockburn. It does such as a piece of cord, a 2 stones or a

The trouble with the rapid victory over the common enemy obligations for other loans, kot mines words, this treaty, or obscure grass.

The president of the Committee, a sub- that the dogs, in their was

asked

The greatest problem of war nance, By it the French were bound to aid Scot- the intention with diplomatic verbiage. ndant zeal, nover returned without altern,

to visit all me, if possible, to the other committees.

however, is that of making payments, to from the injured man, and.

throughout the sumathing

against usually they took that which fret struck Army. "Our soldiers," he said, "have neutral countries for goods and services land in time of peace or war

This has been a the King of England and his subjecta their eyes.

This was most often a band such firm belief and confidence in their obtained from them.

heavier task with the Allies than with the reciprocal obligation on the Scots was reasons firstly to make war upon the Kingdom of taught to bring back a cap and the sol with the utmost readiness."

because Germany is more

England with all their Force, whensoever self-supporting hair.

and secondly, by reasch of the activity of war is waged between us and the King the British Navy the hag been unable to of England." And for ts and obtain the goods desired from many ofty years, both countries held loyally the neutral countries, and consequently on Henry V, and the monarchs of Eng

to the agreement, with distressing effect has not had the same reason for payments. Not only, however, has Great land, who, when dispatching armies to America on a count of herself and her very liable to jag on the north sido. Britain had to make these payments to France, overlooked the therm which was

Allies, amounting to many hundreds of From the alliance France profited al millions, but owing to the depreciated most entirely on the side of military nxchange, restilting from our adversa hid, while Scotland profited in the same balance trade the payment have been respect, sud, qdditionally, in culture and far in excess of the ordinary intrinsic commerce. Dating the Hundred Years in value of the commodities supplied, while War between France and England, Scuts

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The chief of the local Militie, tempor- seize him by her THE WOUNDED. arily formed for police duties, rated Part Dogs are never trained to scent out 40 or 30 persons are being daily arrested on their arrival at Pakoff, disguised as the dead. Their business is to assist the wounded. Each one carries a first-aid soldiers or oven officers on suspicion of package strapped about its back or neck acting as agents of the old regime. Many and knows that when a wounded map is on the pay of the old Government on of is of them proved to be spies and informers found he may take the package.

They are trained to carry letters from Germany.

The undoubted and well-recogn post to post and they learn to distinguish

and well-recognized pre sente of the various posts by pame. They are also is of Provocateurs among the

revolutionary bodica, of aid to soldiers on the watch. A French

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very excited. have cast discredit upon the activity of Allies have had to pay excessively high France (ne Buchan, son of the Wolf! continually growling and This was enough for the soldiers; they the extremista. The old régime worked in rates of interest the lenders naturally law shelf army dogs and believed in dark and devious ways. New Russia will enough taking advantage of the exchange of Badenoch, rose to be High Constable them so they telephoned to the main soon become proof against the blandish position to demand proportionately high of France and Dun d'Aubigns; the Earl

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or seditious wolves in terme

of Dongle died in battle at Vermeuil in support. Fully monte of entrenchments for

1425 as Duke of Touraine. The records. twenty five minutes after the reinforce sheep's clothing The new organizations Now, however, and assuming, as we mens arrived, a German attack was made in the Armies and throughout Russia will doubtless may, the loyal co-operation of of the time hold many Gallicised Scots

eradicate this evil. from the trenches opposite, which was quickly

America as our Ally, matters in these names, such as Moncrif, Maxuel, and While at Pekoff turned back because of the superior num-

I met Archbishop directions should be vastly improved. In Tournébulle. The poorer emigrants were bere that answered the telephone call.

Andrew, Prince Ukhtomsky, the new the first place, we have no reason to fear as 'successful in their own sphere, and Metropolitan of Petrograd. He came to that within the bounds of rot there formed, by reason of their fighting que No. 3A & B, ROBINSON ROAD. The distance of the German trenches op- posite those of the French is not give Ruzaky and Dragomiroff and other Army credits which America will be prepared to

confer with M. Gutchkoff and Generals will be any limitation to the volume of lities, the personal bodyguard of the but that does not stand in the way of schiefs Tau question which necessarily grant, and fortunately that country is in and for years the Scottish merchants to French monarchs Scottish trade in flourished in the spa of French patronage, very interesting question: By what sense did these dogs ROW

exercised the minds of loyal saldiers was an suurmously strong position owing to paid an annual visit to Bordeaux, receiv know of the approaching how to reconcile their allegiance to 2 years of prosperity, supplemented by attack!

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ly displaced horses, for rushing machine- guns from one loention to another, e- fording a corrthat under fire they re more dependable than horses and may bo relied upon to keep the gun out of the hands of the enemy even though the entire scort be killed. And they can be kept in trenches safe from hostile bullets, which is impossible with larger animals.

In Russin dogs have been used to carry ammunition to the firing lines, and by the quickness of their work, which was formerly done by crouching end creeping men, have kept the soldiers well supplied from the ammunition-wagons which are always Jikuly to be far in the rear of id racing fles.

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necessarily absolves them from the allegi- ace they owed to him when he was their lawful Sovereign The last lingering doubts as to the legality of the new order are being thus removed.

TARA THE ARMY COMMANDERS. During my visit to the Northern front was privileged to come into frequent personal intercourse with the chief com realize the great difficulties and respon manders of the Russian Army, They all

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The question of improving and re-precise effect of the latest developments customs, and language. Henry VIII. decide except as a means of giving juvenating the High Commands neces-upon monetary conditions in America an authority on matrimonial questions, typical stories of what are every day ex hibitions of intelligence, devotion, and sarily formed one of the principal topics itself. Nevertheless, those who see in made an abortive attempt to end it by aelf-sacrifice on the

of of the conferences at Riga and Pakoff. present developments, if confirmed by the arranging a marriage between his son, of dogs of Part numerous breeds in the vast zone, of Commander-in-Chief and the Army Group tion ere long in the Bank Rate to 5 per sorrowy Mary, Queen of Scote The O

I understood that the selection of the vote of Congress, justification for a reductator Edward L, and that child *** The people in the warring countries Commanders will be vested in the Peucent, would seem to have good grounds for genial plan, however, was interrupted by visional Government, while the Army that view, he working of the Alliance itself under are called on for many and varied con Commanders will be selected by the tributions The French War, Department

which Mary was shipped has on record a communication from the Group Commanders, the Corps Comman rather far ahead, there were two other Dauphin. But other influences word at HOUSES u Ben Vallen

And, finally while it may be looking to France, and there may father of a family which poignantly illudera by the Army Cobrane Corps Com considerations which were responsible for work through which France and Scotland strated this; for he wrote:

Division Commanders by the Corps Con the importance which the City Attaches were shortly to be sundered. John Knox already have thres sons and a son-in-law with the manders.nyen meg

- to the decision of the United States. The up my dog, and Five dogs, as well as mon, women, and event was that the period of the war itself tions and the eyes of Scottish merchants was preaching violent religious reforms- was likely to be shortened, and quite

battle

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MORE WISDOM ABOUT DOGS

advantages of Other stories of the are likely to come to as when the war is fortunately, we do not employ much

heroiam of dogs places where they can do most good. Un aspects of this matter the mere possibility trading with England. In 1552 France over and from them we may gain more philosophy in our dealings with dogs afforded relief. The second consideration

ofc curtailment

last effort to save the situation. ic war expenditure windom about dogs. We are likely to We use them for our left-over emotions was that in the active

Court

plenary power, to become informed but whether we learn it I know an excellent woman who

Co-operation of govern Scotland. He pur

purged the Govern or not resta with us that a change for every dog she owns by sheer spoiling by America, with the Allies, was to be found inent offices of natives, he purged the not only the best solution for the most military stations of Scots soldiers-and education and training is important for letting it have its own way, without economical prosecution of the conflict incidentally, he parged the Scottish wind

s useful life, and straint. And I know a man, a good citi itself but also the greatest hope of Gioan of gay respect for France, that in the economy of a better order of zen who strives to deal justly with his cial recuperation afterwards,

for kind, but who is disposed to kick dogs if international credit avstem must be For three hundred years after that the dogs to do in the skyeste

take out their greatly strengthened by the alliance Scots fought with England against In dealing with doga we

we should philosophic), and fachembers that mis-

Kurope which are now, as President Scotland fight together against the com placement is a cause of disorder; that

Wilson himself has seknowledged, fighting on enemy of civilisation. (Continued at foot of next column.)

History has the battle of civilization.

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