MUST OBEY LAW

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 9

MUST OBEY LAW

VICEROY WILL BE FIRM

RESISTANCE TO SUBVERSION

■ ' DELHI, Ist May. • So long as the law is openly de-. fied, neither tho Viceroy nor the Government can do. anything but resist its subversion,- by whatever means that may be in their power.. This reiteration of the Government's policy dealing with the civil disobedience movement is contained in a letter from tho' Viceroy to Mr. Mahomed Ali, a prominent Moslem leader, who sent a telegram to the Viceroy suggesting that a rapprochement might bo sought to bring' about a peace honourable to both'the Government and Gandhi. Mr. Ali .had appealed to the Viceroy ■ not to permit the situation to become graver by tho arrest of Gandhi, as both Gandhi and the Government had made a sufficient demonstration of their strength. Tho Viceroy's reply reminds Mr. Ah where the responsibility lies for the present situation, and concluded with a statement that the policy of the Governmpnt with regard to tho solution of India's difficulties remains unchanged. Deviades, the sou of Gandhi, was sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment at New Delhi on a charge .of sedition. § ' < CLOTH BOYCOTT EXTENDING. The movement for the boycott of British cloth is intensifying throughout India, and Hindu cloth-dealers in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, and other principal cities have decided not to place further orders till the end of the year. The action of Nationalist voluntters in picketing cloth shops and preventing the sale of British goods is creating dissatisfaction among Moslem dealers. The Amritsar Traders' Arbitration Board consin'n'-ed the situation arising out of the boycott and passed a'resolution "which was sent to the Viceroy, drawing attention to tho fact that merchants were repudiating their contracts. Others are panic-stricken on account of the severe local trade depression. ' " ,