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Show IS Won enemy AUENS AT PHi CAMP AT F. DOUGLAS AND 7 ARE INJURED Seven enemy aliens of tho third war prison camp nt Fort Douglas, are In the post hospital with thefr hodlcs full or buckshot "as the result of an attack upon a prison guard early yesterday morning. All of tho srven were moro or less severely wounded. The names or the prisoners wounded will not be made public until a detailed detail-ed report or the matter is submitted to Washington. . Tuesday night the prison officers discovered a tunnel which the prisoners prison-ers had started under one of the buildings' build-ings' in an effort 10 escape. Its dlscov cry was disappointment to the prisoners prison-ers and put them in an ugly mcod, camp officials said. During tho night a dozen or more of them wore reported to havo congregated outside their barracks bar-racks and to have insulted a guard who was walking his beat. Tho guard ordered ihoni to disperse and return to their beds. The prisoners refused to obey The guard is said to havo repeated re-peated his orders to them, whereupon the prisoners began to attack him with stones and missiles. Under this attack, which gave indications indi-cations of assuming serious proportions, propor-tions, the guard opened Arc with his I shotgun. |