HUNGER STRIKERS
INDIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS. PETITION FOR RELEASE FAILS. CONVICTIONS FOR TERRORISM. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Simla correspondent of “The Times” states 190 convicts on Andaman Islands, the Indian penal settlement, went on a hunger strike or refused to work following the Government’s refusal of their petition for release, also their request that all convicted prisoners and others interned throughout India should he released, that all repressive laws and orders for internment be withdrawn, and that all political prisoners on the Andaman Islands be returned and no more sent there.
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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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 248, 31 July 1937, Page 7
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