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Show CURIOUS M BARRED FROM PRISON CIP Teutons at Fort Douglas Spared a Too-close View by Visitors at Post. The German prisoners of war at Fort Douglas continue to be the center of attraction at-traction to the visitors to the post. Yesterday Yes-terday the deadline around the war prison pris-on was manned by sentries to keep the crowds back of the line, which Is 440 feet from the first barbed wire enclosure. The sailors took their exercise during the afternoon and staged a number of wrestling matches and also a number of games of leap frog, which is the old standby aboard ship. The prison grounds, which are policed by the prisoners, were as clean as the grounds which are occupied occu-pied by the soldiers at the fort. Every little stick of wood and every stone has been carefully placed in small piles and will be carted away within a few days. Exercise was had by a number of the prisoners yesterday by piling up numerous numer-ous rocks which were found at the east end of the prison. The sailors of the Cormoran were dressed In their Sunday best yesterday. Visitors to the camp envied the white duck uniforms of the sailors as they appeared ap-peared to be cool In the boiling sun which beat down on the reservation during the late morning and afternoon. The Baroness von Elpons, wife of one of the German lieutenants imprisoned at the war prison barracks, aopeared at the fort yesterday afternoon, but as no one was in the war prison headquarters she immediately returned to the city. Her visiting days have not yet been arranged. She said she left almost Immediately, as she did not care to become a conspicuous conspicu-ous personage in the eyes of the Sunday crowds. |