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Show ALIENS IN CilPOiD PISHEOIIY BH Forced to Dig Up, Then Refill Re-fill Tunnel by Which They Hoped to Escape. As a matter of , discipline and to impress im-press upon the Teuton mind the fact that it is no easy matter to "put something over" on the prison authorities. Colonel George L. Byram, commandant of the third war prison camp at Fort Douglas, had the civilian prisoners dig open from the surface of the ground their recently discovered escape tunnel, and fill it again with eartli hauled in wheelbarrows from outside the prison camp. The prisoners put in a long, hard day working in the snow and cold, digging, hauling, tamping and filling the tunnel and ditch to tlie satisfaction of the prison authorities. . It was a weary and well-chastened bunch of civilian enemy aliens that tamped the last shovelful of earth into place, but when the work was done the prison authorities knew that the tunnel was filled. . When the latest tunnel was discovered the other day the civilian prisoners were prompt in their proffers to fill it up. Colonel Byram smiled and accepted the offer. The prisoners got busy, and with much show of energy "filled the tunnel." The colonel smiled again, but said nothing. Yesterday morning he ordered all prisoners out with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows. He directed that a trench be dug from a certain point under one of the buildings to another given point toward tho fence. He directed that it be dug to a depth of a little more than five feet. When this depth had heen reached the diggers broke through into an open space. It was the tunnel. The work disclosed that the prisoners had merely filled up the end of the tunnel and left the rest of it open, possibly for future use. The colonel only smiled as the unfilled tunnel came Into view. Then he gave a few orders and the prisoners spent the rest of the day hauling earth from the hill outside the compound and tamping it solidly into the tunnel and trench until they were completely filled. "German prisoners mav know how to fill tunnels, but I am from Missouri," laughingly remarked Colonel Bvram in discussing the matter last night." |