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Outposts 



A dog with an outpost, or outlying picket, would 1> 

 great assistance in savage warfare, as the hush 1> m 

 thick it is next to impossible to detect an cnnnv creep- 

 ing up to give a surprise attack, and, of course, the picket 

 would, unless great vigilance is exercised, be taken by 

 surprise, and possibly the result would be disastrous for 

 the encampment, as once a picket is done away with with- 

 out much noise, the camp could easily be susceptible to 

 a surprise attack in force. So with the assistance of a 

 good alert dog with each picket, the danger would greatly 

 be eliminated. 



Guarding a Camp 



A camp pitched in the midst of a dense bush is always 

 liable to surprise attack, unless a very strong cordon of 

 pickets is posted. Dogs, placed a distance of half a mile 

 from camp, at intervals of thirty yards apart, would, on 

 the advance of an enemy, give the alarm to the out-hiv 

 or in-line pickets, as the case may be, and, therefore, the 

 camp would not be taken by surprise. Furthermore, d 

 picketed as mentioned above would certainly save life. 

 and do away with a large number of sentries, especially it 

 the force was depleted in strength by sickness, as is often 

 the case in the tropics. 



The colonel of a British infantry regiment made the 

 following statement to me : 



Dogs for Mesopotamia 



" I think that as watch dogs to replace sentries, 1 



would be invaluable. 



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