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Show MILITARY PRISONERS ANXIOUS rOR SCRAP SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 The poaal-blllty poaal-blllty of Intervention In Mexico ha stirred unrest among the military prisoners prison-ers on Alcatraa laland. In an open letter let-ter published here today they ask "one more chance." "True, there are many here who are not and never will make soldiers,' runs the letter In part. "But about one-third of them would make a fine a fighting unit as there Is In the army, a layout that any officer might be proud to take the field with. "Many are here because they are not farrlson soldiers. They sre fighting men. lie monotony oT life at a poet was too much for them. Many hav had baptismal bap-tismal fire In Cuba. China and the Philippines. Phil-ippines. What we want Is a chance to serve In action and than retire to civil life with a good discharge Instead of a bobtail." |