HUNGER STRIKE ENDS.
CONVICTS ON ANDAMAN ISLANDS. SIMLA, Aug. 29. All except seven of the convicts on the Indian penal settlement, the Andaman Islands, have abandoned their hunger strike. One hundred and ninety convicts went on hunger-strike or 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prisoners and persons interned throughout India should he released, all repressive laws and orders of internment withdrawn, and also that all political prisoners on the Andaman Islands ho returned to India and that no more be sent to the islands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 31 August 1937, Page 7
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