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REFUSAL TO WORK. REQUESTS TO THE GOVERNMENT. CONVICTION FOR TERRORISM. Culled Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 31, i p.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Simla correspondent of the Times states that 100 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 for release, also requesting that all convicted prisoners and others interned throughout India should be released, that all repressive laws and orders for internment be withdrawn, and that all political prisoners on the Andaman Islands be returned and no more sent there.
The authorities point out that all prisoners on the islands have been convicted of terrorism and that the convicts’ petition coincides with the Congress Party’s agitation for the release of all political prisoners.
4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 8
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