PRISONERS ON STRIKE.
INDIANS ON ANDAMANS. Received July 31, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, July 30. The Times Simla correspondent states that 190 convicts on the Andaman Islands, the Indian penal settlement in the Bay of Bengal, went on a hunger strike or refused work following the Government’s refusal of their petition for release. They also requested that all the convicted prisoners and others interned throughout India should be released, tha.t all the repressive laws and orders for internment be withdrawn, and also that all the political prisoners on the Andaman Islands lie returned and no more sent The authorities point out that all the prisoners on the islands have been convicted of terrorism and that the convicts’ petition coincides with the Congress Party’s agitation for the release of all political prisoners.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 10
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130PRISONERS ON STRIKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 10
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