are made of tubes of steel, light, low and stable, and fitted with pneumatic tires. The 

 carriage complete does not weigh more than 220 Ibs., and is easily dragged by the 

 team of two dogs, or eventually carried by the four members of the detachment. Its 

 height and breadth are each about 31 inches. The trials were carried out to test the 

 following : Visibility, mobility on roads and across country, overcoming obstacles, 

 and resistance to fatigue. They lasted three weeks in bad weather, during which a 

 distance of 250 miles was covered. The six pack-horses were wither-galled, and had 

 to be successively replaced but not so the dogs. On the march across country, 

 or commons, of from \ l / 2 to 3 miles, where the ground presented obstacles or was 

 broken up, the dogs gained without doubt in mobility and speed over the horses, 

 especially when ditches, hedges and low walls had to be negotiated. The teams 

 crossed with ease ploughed land and crops, copses and banks. Assisted by the detach- 

 ments they crossed over deep ditches and steep slopes. The horses showed signs of 

 fatigue long before the dogs. The latter were afraid of nothing, and followed perfectly 

 the member of the detachment charged with leading each team. They lay down or 

 resumed the order of march on a signal, without even barking, and in perfect order. 



The smallest fold in the ground concealed the teams, and at 300 yards distance, 

 nothing of them could be distinguished. Coming into or out of action was more 

 rapidly effected than in the case of the pack-horses. 



Dog Harness 



The regiments to which they were attached had three sections, each of 2 guns and 

 4 ammunition carts, requiring 36 dogs for the 18 vehicles. 



In action the dogs gave every satisfaction, and whilst halted in positions of 

 readiness for often considerable periods, they lay down quietly waiting in their harness. 



In coming into action the Nos. 1 had sometimes to creep on in front, accompanied 

 by the team driver of each gun, in order to choose their positions in actions. At a 

 signal, the teams moved quickly up into the emplacements when, the detachments hav- 

 ing brought the guns into action, the empty carriages with their drivers proceeded to 

 the rear and rejoined the ammunition carts under cover. 



The trials indeed were so successful that orders were issued to erect, for all 

 infantry regiments, kennels for a dozen dogs per unit, and at Beverloo a remount and 

 training establishment for these dogs was to be formed. 



It is even reported in the course of the campaign, in Belgium that the war dogs 

 of the machine guns took a still more active part by "going for" German soldiery. 



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