MOSLEY IN PRISON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 165, 13 July 1940, Page 8

MOSLEY IN PRISON.

REFUSES LUXURIES.

ONE VISITOR A WEEK.

RADIO SET NOT ALLOWED. (By Air Mall.) IyONDOX, June 29. Sir Oswald Mosley, now Xo. 2461 in Brixton Prison, where he is interned, is living on little more than the prison diet. Most of the 100 other Fascists in Brixton send out for wine, beer, tobacco and special foods which people under detention have the right to do. Every morning Sir Oswald has a breakfast of porridge and a pint of tea in his cell, which is in a separate wing from the ordinary prisoners. He rarely sees other members of the British Union. He is allowed one visitor a week, and until her arrest, it was aTways from his beautiful wife, the former Mrs. Bryan Guinness, who is a daughter of Lord Redesdale and sister of Unity Mitford. Some time ago. Lady Mosley brought her husband a radio set in the hoj>e that he might be permitted to have it in his cell, but under prison regulations this could not be allowed. Captain A. IT. M. Ramsay, M.P., who last week used his privilege to appeal to the House of Commons, is now housed in the hospital wing of the prison. He has not been well. It is reported that he suffers from claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) as the result of shock he received when severely wounded in the last war. Unlike Sir Oswald Mosley, Captain Ramsay dots exercise his privilege of sending out for small luxuries. He has a half bottle of white wine brought in daily. Twenty of (he detained Fascists have now been transferred to Liverpool. But in the last few days there have been a considerable number of new arrivals at Brixton. Twelve armed police officers now patrol regularly outside the prison. Warders in the gaol have shown great tact in handling the Fascists and they have averted scenes by carefully segregating them. The Fascists are "allowed out on the parade ground at different times from ordinary prisoners. There was an occasion on Thursday when several Fascists were taken to the bathrooms while a number of prisoners were there. Some cat-calls and booing followed before the remand prisoners were led nut. Any Fascist who pave the Xazi salute in the prison would immediately be made to clean out his" cell as punishment. Brixton has a 'luxury" cell consisting of two rooms, which may be occupied on payment of 5/ a week. Sir Oswald Mosley and Captain Ramsay have not asked to occupy it, and the "quarters remain empty.