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their sentries, and in the American War, North and South, 

 they were used as sentries and guards. The French also 

 had a system of sentry dogs in Tunis and Algeria, and 

 also in their colonies of Dahomey, Cochin China and 



Madagascar. 



Towards the end of the last century, and at the com- 

 mencement of 1900, several Continental nations began the 

 study of dog service for the army. Training was com- 

 menced in Germany, Holland, France, Russia and Sweden, 

 and was more or less in all these countries under official 

 recognition. In Germany especially, the work was much 

 thought of, and the Jager regiments especially had large 

 numbers of dogs trained as sentries and messengers. These 

 proved of great value on the outbreak of war. Besides 

 encouraging these military dogs, the authorities in most 

 of these countries had also recognized the value of dogs 

 to the police, and here again Germany was to the fore, 

 and the large service of police dogs in the Fatherland was 

 transferred to the army during the war. They did excel- 

 lent service for their army, when unfortunately we had 

 hardly any on our side. 



In my book, " War, Police and Watch Dogs," published 

 some years before the war, there is a photograph, depicting 

 a number of English-bred dogs with a German regiment. 

 I mentioned my fears that these dogs might be used against 

 us some day, while we were doing nothing in preparation 

 along the same line. I also stated how I discovered the 

 German agents buying up large quantities of our good 

 Airedales, sheep dogs and collies, for military and police 

 purposes. 



At the outbreak of the war, the French had a certain 

 number of dogs with seven or eight infantry regiments, 

 and there was a certain official encouragement extended to 



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