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Show WAR PRISONERS' TUNNEL DISCOVERED AI FORT A tunnel forty fast long, which. If completed, com-pleted, would hava been the meana of delivering all the Interned 1. W. W. Ger-i Ger-i mans from the Third war prison camp at Ft. Douglaa has been discovered by officers. of-ficers. It Is tha largeat one yet dug by the prisoners, and it was so Ingeniously concealed that If Increased vigilance of 1 offlcera had not bean e sere teed It undoubtedly un-doubtedly would have been completed. The point of beginning choaen for tha tunnel waa th side of a concrete-lined bathhouse near tha prison hospital building. build-ing. Ths prisoners by sanding ons man Into the bathhouse st night or at other times when It waa poaalhle for the worker to ba warned of tha coming of tha guards, dug a hole through the concrete wall more than a foot equare. To conceal this hofe. a cap of wood to eaactly fit the opening and camouflaged with paint and grit which gave the appearance of concrete, waa made and placad over It. The officers offi-cers detected tha cap of wood by tha use of a pick. |