Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1919 — YANK PRISONERS REFUSE TO QUIT CELLS FOR WORK. [ARTICLE]

YANK PRISONERS REFUSE TO QUIT CELLS FOR WORK.

Leavenworth, Kas., July 24. Quiet prevails tonight ait the Unfited States disciplinary barracks, where this morning 2,500 prisoners refused to leave their cells for the daily work of .the prison. With the arrival today of additional troops from Camp Grant, Hl., the military guards mow number 1,400 and according to Col. Sedwick Race, commandant, are sufficfient to maintain discipline. Just what -steps will be taken tomorrow to compel the prisoners to return to work was not disclosed tonight by Colonel Rice. Indications at the barracks tonight were that the striking prisoners were growing tired of the situation, due, it was said, to the bread and water diet on which the prisoners are being ikept and the fact that they must remain in their cells during the present hot w<eather.