INDIAN CONVICTS
PETITION FOR RELEASE
ISLAND PENAL SETTLEMENT
STRIKE TACTICS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received July 31, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, July 30.
The Simla correspondent of "The Times" states that 190 convicts in the Andaman Islands; the Indian penal settlement, are on hunger-strike or have refused work following the Government's refusal of their petition for. release and also requesting that all convicted political prisoners and persons interned throughout India should be released, all repressive laws and orders of internment withdrawn, and also that all iDolitical prisoners on the Andaman Islands be returned to India and no more sent to the islands.
The authorities point but that all the prisoners on the Andaman Islands have been convicted of terrorism. . ■ ■
The convicts' petition coincides with the Congress Party's agitation for the release of all political prisoners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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135INDIAN CONVICTS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1937, Page 9
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