STRIKE SYMPATHY
TROUBLE IN CALCUTTA
(Received August 16, 9.20 a.m.) CALCUTTA, August 14. Police armed with laths charged a procession of sympathisers with the Andaman Islands hunger strikers because those taking part in the procession refused to march ten at a time. A hundred persons were arrested, and fifty, including women, were injured.
The Simla correspondent of "The Times" reported that 190 convicts in the Andaman Islands, the Indian penal settlement, were on hunger strike or had 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prisoners and persons interned throughout India should be released, all repressive laws and orders of internment withdrawn, and also that all political prisoners on the Andaman Islands be returned to India and no more sent to the islands.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 10
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133STRIKE SYMPATHY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 10
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