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pursued, and I should certainly recommend th.it this 

 should not be adopted on a future occasion. Owing to this 

 clever method of encouragement and registration pursued 

 before the war, it has been stated, that at t he ci >mmencement 

 of hostilities, Germany was able to put into the field almo I 

 immediately about six thousand dogs, which were utilized 

 on botli fronts. Ludendorff gave his signed order for this 

 concentration and utilization, and, furthermore, detailed 

 an officer on the Headquarters Staff, to direct the whole 

 movement. It will be seen from this, the very gi 

 importance which was attached to this work. 



For many years before the war I had been aware of the 

 fact that German agents were constantly at work in this 

 country, studying our various British breeds, and importing 

 certain of them in large numbers into Germany, for use with 

 their military and police establishments, those with the 

 police being convertible at short notice into military 

 dogs. Scotch collies and Airedales were much sought after, 

 and at one time a man— a German — carried on a steady 

 export trade of these dogs to his country. It is with a 

 certain measure of satisfaction, that I recall the fact, that 

 it was the sense of exasperation which I felt at the exploita- 

 tion of our dogs for their own purposes, that spurred me 

 on to persist, in spite of every discouragement, in the 

 furtherance of the work of police dog and military d 

 training for our own country. This, and the absolute 

 conviction that some day the wonderful qualities 

 of the dog, as an aid to man under every condition 

 in which man might be placed, would be recognized and 

 utilized. 



I here give a translation of a document dealing with the 

 work of the war dogs in the field, which was captured from 

 a German Headquarters : 



