Special precautions will be taken at the "Doomed Battalion" Intern. ment Camp where riots have been {Ooe on since Friday afternoon when internees objected to some repair work. Although quieter yesterday, tension continued to reign at the camp and the Russian Regiment guard, reinforced on Sunday, will remain in its augmented state.
No visitors have been allowed into the Camp since Friday and this will be kept up until peace and quiet are restored there.
Separate cases of malconduct were noted yesterday when the interned soldiers threw stones at the Russian Regiment sentries but on the whole the situation was much better, and practice of stone-throwing ceased after a while, The whole trouble started over a football gate. and flamed into a real riot when the internees demanded freedom, basing their claims on the fact that. British troops, to whom they surrendered in 1937, had left the city, Determined to break the riot, the authorities concerned ordered that no food be given to the soldfers unless they promised to behave, but this measure as well as others failed to bring any results.
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