ON HUNGER-STRIKE.
CONVICTS ON ANDAMAN ISLANDS. THEIR DEMANDS REFUSED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlgh: SIMLA, Aug. 3. The convicts on the Andaman Islands, the Indian penal settlement, continue to hunger-strike. The Chief Commissioner announces that he will inform their relatives if there is cause for anxiety. On July 30 it was staled that convicts on the Andaman Islands were hunger-striking or refusing t.» wo.k follow : ng tlie Government’s refusal of their petition for release This petition requested also that all convicted political prisoners and interned persons throughout India should be released, that nil repressive laws and orders of internment he withdrawn, and that all political prisoners on the Andamans be returned to India, an' no more be sent to the Andamans.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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121ON HUNGER-STRIKE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20264, 5 August 1937, Page 9
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