AFFRAY AT AN ALIEN CAMP.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13634, 24 November 1914, Page 5

AFFRAY AT AN ALIEN CAMP.

INSUBORDINATE PRISONERS

GUARDS COMPELLED TO FIRE

SEVERAL CASUALTIES

(Received Nov. 23, 9.40 p.m.)

London, Nov. 23

A regrettable affray occurred at the alien camp at Douglas, Isle of Man. Four thousand German and Austrian civilians are interned there, and are guarded by 300 National Reservists and Manx Territorials.

Everything was satisfactory' until the arrival of the latest batch of prisoners. Insubordination then commenced, the prisoners insulting the sentries, and refusing to obey orders. Finally complaints about the food resulted in violent scene* in the dining pavilion, knives and plates being thrown about, and chairs smashed.

A party of prisoners tried to rush the kitchen, but a few soldiers barred the passage.

At first the soldiers fired in the air, but it then became necessary to shoot in earnest. The prisoners mostly held up their bands, and others sought to Ay. Five were killed and fifteen wounded.