MUCH EXAGGERATED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9

MUCH EXAGGERATED

CAMP DISTURBANCE

ISLE OF MAN INTERNEES

RUGBY, October 2. Replying to questions relating to the recent disturbances in a camp in,the Isle of Man where a number of British subjects are interned under, the defence regulations, and from which three recently escaped, the Home Secretary said that the demonstration iwhen these were returned was due ta | misunderstandings regarding the treati ment these men were subject to. The internees thought these men were I being starved, when in fact they had been given a meal by the naval patrol \ which captured them. The details of the disturbance, Mr. Morrison said, had been highly exaggerated. In fact, no assault had been made on anyone, although the demonstrators did break some windows and cause damage to buildings. Mr. Morrison pointed out that the persons interned at this camp were not undergoing punitive detention, and in consequence the terms of their captivity had been made as easy as possible. The maintenance of good order had been entrusted, mainly to the internees themselves. If they were not able to govern themselves other steps would have to be taken.

Identification of the actual ringleaders, he said, was difficult because of the darkness, but he proposed to transfer to prison certain persons, in the camp who were most likely to have been responsible: The three men who escaped would be tried by ordinary criminal process on charges for offences alleged to have been committed by them after their escape.—B.O.W. .

(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. Three men were committed for trial on a charge of attempting to escape from the internment camp in the Isle of Man. Two refused to plead, as they were members of the I.R.A.