MILITARY PRISONERS
120 CONTINUE HUNGER STRIKE LONDON, Oct. 15. “About 120 military prisoners at Dartmoor were still hunger striking to-night,” says a.Home Office statement. It adds that the prisoners’ conduct otherwise has been _ good. There has been no indiscipline or threats of it. “The report that the prisoners threatened to wreck the prison unless released within 11 days is without foundation,” adds the statement. “More than 100 prisoners have submitted petitions relating to their court-martial sentences, which will be referred to the War Office. “The four prisoners who escaped yesterday .have been recaptured.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 6
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