ARMY SILENT ON TULE LAKE STRIKE

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.--(AP)--Army and War Relocation Authority officials were noncommittal today on published reports of a hunger strike involving almost 200 Japanese-American residents of the Tule Lake Segregation Center.

The report was that the strike, which lasted several days, began December 31 and was concluded only recently and that "a change of policy has been in the making in the past 24 hours."

Col. Vern Austin, in charge of the Army troops patrolling the grounds, the report said, declared Ninth Service Command headquarters at Fort Douglas, Utah, will soon issue a statement on the reported change in camp administration.