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distance of three thousand yards, and came back in four 

 minutes, with what I believe was an important message ; it 

 was a map of the German Lines. That four minutes' run 

 was done by 2 dogs, 104, and 106, and you can imagine how 

 they must have run to have done it in that time ; it was a 

 night run and was very dark. Anyway, I will convince you 

 that what I have said is true. The two dogs came in to 

 the tunnel, I got the messages out of the carrier and was 

 half way to the Signal Officer, when I was met by the R.E. 

 Corporal who said that my two dogs had been released. 

 Of course I told him that they had reached me — Well ! 

 he said, he would not believe it that a dog could beat a tele- 

 phone message, evidently when the dogs were released the 

 telephone man had telephoned through to say the dogs 

 had been let go. I was not satisfied, I wanted the thing 

 correct, so I went to the Signal Office and asked the man 

 at the forward post what time he released the dogs, and 

 he replied that they had been released exactly six minutes, 

 so as it was a minute's walk from the kennels to the Signal 

 Office and with the time it took to get the messages out of 

 the dog's collar, I say they did their run in four minutes, 

 and there was not a dog beat that time. 



" The last important place they ran, was from a wood 

 that the Germans held part of, in front of St. Amand, near 

 to Valenciennes. There was an attack there one night 

 and my three dogs were sent in that. I may add that they 

 had only been with me two hours at this new place before 

 they were sent up to the front-line Company, and they 

 came back in fairly good time. The Officer spoke well of 

 them." 



Keeper Waters had two black-and-white collies, " Pierrot " 

 and " Domino." They were both handsome dogs, " Domino " 



