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Show TEUTONS FOILED III ATTEMPTTO ESCAPE Plot at Wholesale Delivery at War Prison Nipped in Time. ATLANTA. Ga., May 4. An apparent attempt at wholesale delivery of the German Ger-man prisoners a t Fort McPherson was foiled late yesterday when the guards discovered a 50-foot tunnel leading from one of the prisoners' barracks toward the double-wire fence which incloses the prison camp, it became known today. The discovery of the underground passage followed an investigation of a disturbance among the prisoners themselves. them-selves. In quelling the disorder the guards had to advance with fixed bayonets bayo-nets before the angry Germans would disperse. When the disorder had been quieted, guards began j& search of the prisoners quarters, and soon discovered the tunnel. tun-nel. The excavation work evidently had consumed many days, the Germans having hav-ing used all possible means to h'de evidences evi-dences of their work. |