INDIAN NAVAL AND AIR MEN REFUSE DUTY
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l LODDON, Jan. 8. Ninety junior ratbigs 011 Il.MJ.S. Kukrj, at Cochin, 011 the soutlnvest eoaat, refused duty on January 6, says Beuter's Kew Delhi eorrespondent. Forty* of them have now returned to -work. A eominunique does not say why- • the men refused duty. The Kukri, formerly the Trent, is on;
loan to Ihe Uoyal ludian Navy. Hlie supported the seaborue assault on Rannoon 011 Mav 2, 1945. 1 & ; Eighty koyal ludian Air Foree men aro otfic'ially ' sta'ted to have refused 1 duty 011 January 4. The men started ' a hunter strike at the Vizagapatan i Il.A.F. station. Oue man was admitted i to hospital and several are in a weak condition. It is unotticially stated that special meals have been prepared under orders of a niedical offieer, presumably for foreible feeding. The hunger strike followed eonipJaints about other conditions.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 January 1947, Page 3
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