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Show Feigns Blindness anc Fools German Military Doctors and Specialists in Tests. PARIS. Sept. 25 (By Mail.) A professor of the Sarhonne, the great French university, recently secured his release from a Gorman military prison by a remarkable exercise of will power. He fell into the hands of the Germans in 1915. Deciding at once to get free in some wav, hej feigned blindness. " i From that time it was impossible for the German military doctors or eye specialists to catch him off his guard. They subjected him to the severest known tests, such as sudden apparitions of unfamiliar and unexpected unex-pected objects, sudden transitions from complete obscurity to dazzling light. He was tortured by scientific ways of verifying sightlessness but never once departed from a fixed blank gaze, presenting an absolute absence of expression in his eves. Ho1 was finally declared totally bl'ind and included in a recent exchange of permanently per-manently disabled prisoners. I oo |