DARTMOOR UNREST
PLATES THROWN AT WARDERS [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT. 1 (Recd. April 16, noon.) LONDON, April 15. Despite the official denials it is understood a series of incidents at Dart-' moor, similar to those preceding the mutiny of 1932, led to stern disciplinary action. Outbursts are reported to have broken out at meal times, plates and soup bowls being thrown at the officers, .to direct attention to the long term prisoners’ grievances. The warders have been equipped with truncheons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1937, Page 7
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