Control Quickly Regained; Uprising Tried by Trish Extremists Isolated from Other Inmates London, Mar. 24.
MINOR uprising occurred in Dartmoor Gaol yesterday, when members of the Irish Republican Army seized and gagged a warder, and then set fire to a block of the prison, Before they could do much damage, however, the demonstrators were overcome by prison officers, handcuffed and returned to their cells.
The fire proved more troublesome, and took the prison fire brigade about two hour to subdue, When the fi had been extinguished, a gaping hole could be seen in the roof of the block in which the fire had occurred, As the fire brigade fought the flames, police surrounded the walls of the gaol.
Extra police were drafted from a nearby town' immediately the disturbance began, and they are expected to remain over the week-end.
Dartmoor holds extremist prisoners of the IRA. who are kept in special block "by themselves. thought that the trouble-makers took advantage of the fact that the prison Saft" on Saturday afternoon was: smaller than usual. Immediately the trouble broke out all warders were recalled to duty.
The disturbance is stated to have begun when men, who had been segregated because of feeling against them= among the other prisoners, were being exercised with one warder They attacked the warder, gagged him, and pushed Mim through the door of a elt which locked automatically.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.