ARMY PRISON RIOTS
IVAR OFFICE SUSPECTS NATIONAL PLOT
LONDON, March 1
"The Scotland Yard of the War Office—Mls—is investigating what is believed to be a national plot to incite simultaneous rioting among 2362 servicemen held in Britain’s eight ‘glasshouses,’ ” says the Daily Mail. “The War Office is convinced that in spite of the rigid regulations governing military prisons a handful of men at the root ,of the trouble have a secret communication system. Special investigators familiar with the methods of communication used by Allied ' prisoners-of-war in German camps are trying to discover how (prisoners .separated by hundreds of miles are able to communicate with one another. The prisoners are not allowed newspapers, telephone calls, or telegrams, yet within an hour of the Aldershot riot, men hundreds of miles away had full details of the incident.
“The War Office has ordered extra guards and a general tightening up of regulations to prevent further riots.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1946, Page 6
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