Forty-five women prisoners in Manitoba Gaol piled up a barricade of furniture, and staged a food riot. The prisoners hurled' tables and chairs with which they broke nearly all of I the windows in the three-stories of the gaol. The women guards and the city police were powerless to quell the riots. Police hurled tear-gas bombs at the prisoners. Upon this the ■ women prisoners covered their heads with towels and clothing, and the gas had no effect on them. The authorities finally sent an SOS to Winnipeg for a force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.—Ottawa, April 15. *
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1946, Page 4
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