HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUED
ANDAMAN ISLANDS CONVICTS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SIMLA, August 3. (Received August 4, at 1.30 p.m.) The convicts on the Andaman Islands continue to hunger strike. The Chief Commissioner announced that he would inform their relatives if there was cause for anxiety. [The Simla correspondent of * The Times ’ stated on July 30 that 190 convicts on the Andaman Islands—the Indian penal settlement —went on a hunger strike or refused to work following the Government’s refusal of their petition asking for release; also requesting that all convicted prisoners and others interned throughout India should he released and that all repressive laws and orders for internment should be withdrawn, and also that all political prisoners on the Andaman Islands should be returned and no more sent there. The authorities point out that all the prisoners on the islands had been convicted of terrorism, and that the convicts’ petition coincides with the Congress Party’s agitation for the release of all political prisoners.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 9
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