UNFOUNDED REPORTS
NO VIOLENCE AT DARTMOOR HOME SECRETARY ASSURES COMMONS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, April 19. (Received April 20, at noon.) The House of Commons, at question time, received with sympathetic cheers condemnation by the Home Secretary of the sensational and unfounded reports of a disturbance at Dartmoor and in other prisons, which had, in some cases, been circulated' after ap official denial had been issued. Sir John Simon gave a detailed account of the minor breaches of discipline which had occurred earlier this month at Dartmoor in connection with the food, and stated categorically that there had been no violence of any kind and that there was no truth whatever in the suggestion that it had been found necessary to reinforce the staff or take special measures to preserve discipline.
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Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 12
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135UNFOUNDED REPORTS Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 12
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