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Government's Refusal of Petition AG1TATI0N FOR RELEASE
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(Received 31, 10.30 a.in.) LONDON, July 30. The Times Simla eorrespondent states that 190 convicts on Andaman Island, the Indian penal settlement, weilt on a hunger strike or refused work following the Government's refusal of their petition for release also requesting that all convioted prisoners and others interned throughout India should be released; that all repressive laws and orders for internment be withdrawn ; and also that all political prisoners n Andaman Islands be returned and no more sent there. The authorjties pomt out that all the prisoners on the islands have been couvicted of terrorism, and that the convicts' petition coincides with the Congress Party's agitation for release of alj political prisoners.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 5
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