INDIAN TROUBLES
GANDHI'S CAMPAIGN
EXTREMISTS FOLLOWING- LEAD
(itnited Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright )
DELHI, March 10
Extremists in many centres in India are following Gandhi's lead organising a campaign of civil disobedience. Important Siki social organisations in the Punjab placed five thousand volunteers at Gandhi’s disposal. Gandhi decided to leave the settlement near Ahmadabnd on Wed-
nesday accompanied by a hundred v
unteers and male disciples. He hopes to reach .htlnipore on the. coast- of Surat in the Bombay presidency in
three weeks
Five hundred Briti
troops, stationed at Tlmw, were c
dered to stand by and proceed Ahmodabad if requested. Native papers published a repo
that Gandhi will be arrested before Wednesday and deported.
GANDHI’S CAMPAIGN
ABOUT TO COMMENCE,
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.)
DELHI, March. 11
Gandhi has completed arrangements for starting the disobedience campaign to-morrow. There are at present rumours that he will 'be arrested before starting his tour, but so far the authorities have taken no action beyond posting a. few constables along the route which the campaigners will follow.
Gandhi told a vast gathering at Sabarmati tlmt he could secure independence for India- immediately, if seven hundred thousand volunteers were available.
A MOB ATTACK
DELHI. March 11
A mob of five thousand jute strikers, following the arrest of a millhand, stoned the police station at Titagarh and attempted 'to release the prisoner. The station was badly
damaged, but was gallantly defended by two Indian inspectors and a dozen constables, who charged the crowd in face of a shower of bricks.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19300312.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
255INDIAN TROUBLES Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in