DOGS AND ENEMY AEROPLANES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE 0 SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—A similar instance to that mentioned by your correspondent in the issue of July 27th happened recently. I was billeted in a French farmhouse near an aerodrome belonging to one of our night-bombing squadrons. The house-dog always remained quite undisturbed by our own 'planes going out or returning, but one evening he started howling during mess. We went outside and distinguished the well-known hum of the enemy 'planes, which passed over shortly afterwards and unloaded their cargo of bombs —into some ploughed fields a short distance away. On behalf of myself and the other officers of the mess, may I take this oppor- tunity of wishing the paper, which we receive regularly, the best [Dogs no doubt distinguish between familiar and strange sounds in the air as easily as they distinguish between footsteps.—Ee. Spectator.]
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