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...nipped in the bud. Under threat of injunction, "chiselers" were forced to get back in line. But last week New York drinkers enjoyed the best price war yet. For the third successive week prices were 30 to 40% below fixed levels. Many New Yorkers, who had often spent $1 tunnel fare to buy their liquor in New Jersey, bought around the corner, rubbed elbows with Jerseyites buying in Manhattan. Fearing the price war might end any minute, they sent sales sky high...
...Wiseacres in Manhattan bars last week decided Hitler was digging a tunnel under the Channel...
...roll call one morning last week no one answered to the name of Naval Lieut. Werner Koche. Army Home Guards found a tunnel three feet high, 100 yards long, reinforced with wood shores, which led from a secret panel in the cookhouse to a bank covered with long grass outside the camp. They also found a hidden radio room, equipped with a homemade receiver and still uncompleted transmitter. Wet cells for the radio had been made from fruit jars stolen from a train on which the prisoners had been taken to camp. Zinc and copper had been taken from unfinished...
Canadian newspapers demanded to know whether men working on new camp buildings had helped the prisoners by furnishing tools, lumber for the tunnel and parts for the radio, how the prisoners had disposed of the 30 cubic yards of earth taken from the tunnel. Some people wondered why the whole troop of prisoners had not crawled out through the tunnel. And for three days Canadians wondered where Lieut. Koche...
...came with a surprise and a smash. To the hard-fighting Nazi forces commanded by his good friend Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl, Adolf Hitler had promised aid. With the "Bul" and his men holed up in a railway tunnel just six miles from the Swedish border and facing gradual annihilation by British planes and artillery, the promised help arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in the form of a major naval force including the 26,000-ton battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk in Oslo Fjord) and Scharnhorst (damaged in an exchange of shots with the Renown...