The prisoners then locked the door of the main hall and set fire to bed~ ing.
'Pandemonium broke out. Convicts ina neighbouring block' began to shout and {o wave articles of clothing through the bars of their cells. The noise and smoke brought nearby cot tage dwellers to their doors, thinking that another mutiny had broken out, Prison officials, however, soon re-rained control.
At one period, it appeared that a mutiny ona Inyo scale had been planned, but every precaution was taken to nip any outbreak inthe bud.
Wien the fire had died down, and the shooting had ceased, from the outside everything appeared normal According to an announcement by the Home OMec, the trouble was caused by a few IRA. prisoners, who arrieaded themselves ina part of the prison and set fire to a quantity fof material, The damage was slight, {the announcement added and the posi tion was controlled by the prison stall Router Disorders Widespread In North Ireland Dublin, Mar. 25.
Disorders were widespread through northern Ireland yesterday in defiance of an official ban against commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rebellion.
Several persons were vested after dynamiting a railway bridge near Londonderry. Belfast police fired shots in dispersing a crowd of Nationalists. United Press.
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