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Show ilD DOUBLED AT PRISON CIP Thick Blanket of Fog-Forces Military to Take Added Precautions. To uu-atA against any attempt to use tlio dense blanket of fog as a cloak to oovpr operations towar.l an eseapo, the guard on duty at the. Third war prison camp at Fort Douglas has practically been doubled since the f'ogy weather has prevailed. The task of maintaining a double-strength double-strength guard on duty both inside the compound and on the outside, is a rather trying one for officers anil men. due to the fact that the. duties of the guard company are multitudinous. The number num-ber of men kept on guard at the camp is military information, which it is not permissible to print, but. it is sufficient -i " keep the camp thoroughly guarded yvery moment of the day and night. ' When the weather is clear, sentries can take longer posts and in' this way fewer of them are required to be, on duty at a time. But since the, dense fog has been completely enveloping the prison camp it has beeD necessarv to reduce the length of the sentry posts. To the credit of the sailor prisoners of war, who are confined within one section of the ramp, it is said that the strengthening of the guard is not made necessary by their conduct at all, and were there none in the prison compound to be rpekoneI with other than the sailors a minimum guard could be maintained at all times and the officers of the prison company would feel perfectly per-fectly safe and secure. But, to the annoyance of all concerned, con-cerned, the naval prisoners are not the only ones to be considered. Down at one side of the compound there is another an-other class of prisoners, that does tp-ouire tp-ouire the closest surveillance. This class is the civilian alien enemy class, anions which are found a large number of spies and men of like ilk, who are constantly on the alert for an opportunity oppor-tunity to get out. These have made several attempts to dig their way out and cut through the ' fences, but each time their operations have been detected and brought to a sudden halt before they progressed to any dangerous point. |