[ Richardson / Watch-dogs: Their Training and Management ]
Lt.-Col. E(dwin) H(autonville) Richardson (1863 - 1948) was a British military officer who wrote several books about dogs, and for a time was Commandant of the British War Dog School. Among his other works is British War Dogs, Their Training and Psychology (1920), which is treated here at The Cultured Newf.
This work was first published in 1923; the text below is from the 3rd edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) of 1925.
There is only one reference to Newfoundlands:
The following clipping from the Times of December 18th, 1919, illustrates the development of discipline in a dog, based on its love and trust in its master's judgment and ruling:
"For days past every morning has brought fresh news of wrecks on the coasts of Nova Scotia, and along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, ships having been driven ashore in terrific gales, accompanied by blinding storms of snow, on barren, rocky coasts, far from human habitation. From Newfoundland this morning comes the story of the wreck of a coasting steamer on a terrible coast. Ninety-two passengers and crew were saved by the intelligence of a Newfoundland dog belonging to one of the crew. The ship had gone ashore on a reef of jagged rocks, and it was impossible to get a boat out to her in the boiling sea. Finally, a light line was tied round the dog, which obeyed his master's signs and swam ashore, making it possible to rig a block and tackle, by means of which all the souls in the ship were brought to safety. A baby of eighteen months was taken ashore in a mail-bag." (77 - 78)