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...Refugee Committee received 170 applications from various parts of Greater Germany. Many of the applications came through the International Students Service, but several were also received by means of underground agents and indirect sources in America...
...possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards supporting heavy chain-net ten foot above the floor, similar chain-net as used by battleships as a protection from submarine torpedoes. When the leaves were put down, nothing would be in sight, all mechanism being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical with remote control. In fact, the leaves of the bascule-type bridge could be so camouflaged and with an imitation lock close by that I doubt very much whether...
Anesthesia and Antiseptics. Small amounts of morphine are used to dull pain. For deep anesthesia, gas and oxygen are considered safest. Oxygen tanks should be stored underground, where they cannot be exploded by bombs or shellfire...
...absence of any authentic reports of Allied gains, most papers fell back on vague rumors of food riots in remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
...Robson) escapes from the Germans and with her help gets away to The Netherlands, she thinks her duty lies with others like him. With the help of Mme Rappard, the resourceful Countess Mavon (Edna May Oliver) and a bargeman's wife (Zasu Pitts), she organizes a large-scale underground railway whose humanitarian objectives are naturally misunderstood by the equally dutiful German military authorities. She spirits 200 captives out of the war zone before the intelligence service catches up with...