MUTINY IN GAOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 7

MUTINY IN GAOL.

I.R.A. Suspects Overpower

Warders.

PIVE HOURS' SIEGE.

(Received 2 p.m.)

LONDON", December 26.

Mutiny broke out yesterday in the Londonderry Gaol, where 60 Irish Republican suspects are interned for the duration of the war.

Forty-five of the men who volunteered for exercise in the morning overpowered five warders and locked them in cells. They also locked two steel doers in the corridor and then set fire to bedding and broke furniture.

The prisoners demonstrated from windows overlooking a street. They displayed two Republican flags.

Policemen and soldiers arrived at the gaol and released the imprisoned warders. Plumbers reopened the steel doors with acetylene burners.

The prisoners made a final stand in a cell. They were armed with bottles and boards with nails in them. The police stormed the cell vaiiilv. Then< firemen turned on a hose and" compelled the. prisoners to surrender after a five hours' siege.

The haul in the raid made by members of the I.R.A. on the Eire Army's magazine in Phoenix Park totalled 1,000,000 rounds of rifle, machine-gun and revolver ammunition, says a Ihiblin cable. The fort's guard is under detention pending an inquiry.