The Indian Annual Register. an Annual Digest of Public Affairs in India Recording the Nation’s Activities Each Year in Matters Political Economic Industrial Educational Social Etc. July-December 1930

At the same time, in response to the appeal made by the subjects committee of the Bombay Students' Conference, a number of students who favoured complete boycott of colleges started the picketing of colleges in the city with the result that most of the colleges had to close down except the Elphinstone and Syden- ham Colleges which worked with depleted attendance. [...] Persecution in Andhra :—Ace llints received from the Andhra Districts of the steps taken by the Police and Magistracy to put down the activities of persons belonging to the Congress organisations was not only a needless form of harass- ment and persecution but was calculated to deepen the bitterness and hostility between the Government and the peoples. [...] Enquiries as to the causes of the removal showed that the District Magistrate wrote a letter suggesting the removal of the flag and the Municipal Council at a inc. eting held on the 22nd of June resolved that the flag should not be removed. [...] The Magistrate in his letter to the Chairman, demanding the removal of the National Flag, charac- terised the 'tricolour flag,' as a symbol of assistance to the association which had been declared unlawful by the Government. [...] After the arrest of the second batch the students of the college, about 800 iu number, rushed towards the gate but were held up by the professors with the assistance of the police. —The attendance in the Presi- dency College was very thinin the beginning and even those that attended came out with a few exceptions when the released girl picketers appeared on the scene"-23 JULY ] CHRONICLE OF EVENTS