Army Officer Arrests Policeman

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 303, 7 December 1936, Page 3

Army Officer Arrests Policeman

T. «■ * * J --- (WAS ACCUSED OF TRESPASSING f . f? ' ■ ‘ ADondon policeman who followed a jnbtorirt into Wellington Barracks was, toaaythe least of it, surprised when he found 4 hupself arrested by a Welsh Guards officer. The constable was taken to the guard room By a military escort. ’Pkon« wires between the barracks and the Rochester-row police station hummed for < time and the constable was released. Police and Military authorities meet in secret to discuss the facts of the situation—the police to study tne constable’s version, the military authori* ties to study the officVr’s. It. is understood that the constable followed the officer into the barracks and* handed him a cautionary note. But civil and military law do not always see eye to eye— and Wellington Barracks is sacred to the War Departsheet. . A dumbfounded man-in-blue was told firmly that he was trespassing in the barracks, and off to the guard room ho went > Meanwhile the War Office is neutral. » ‘‘We have no knowledge of the facts of the alleged incident,* 1 said an official. “Until we have had an opportunity of makings inquiries we can make no state-