Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve special trains chuffed into the small town of Rzeszow, last week, bearing 10,000 docile prisoners, guarded by some 1,000 police. Soon a large military drill ground was fitted out with grandstands and constituted as an open air courtroom. Only 62 lawyers and 100 witnesses were present. The 10,000 defendants were charged with malfeasance as petty officials of the Polish Railway Men's Benevolent Society, which has only 21,000 members. The case, first heard at Lwow last year, with a mere 6,000 defendants present, will now proceed in earnest, is expected to drag...
...Air Hose: Attached within 24 hours to breather fittings integral with hull...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...
...Air Hose: Attached within four days to submarine's "ears" (S C tubes...
Asphyxiation: Slow, since little acid spilled due to horizontal position; but absence of air hose rendered slow asphyxiation sure...