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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1930, Page 6

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INDIAN CRISIS

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DELHI, April 5

Inahatma Gandhi’s mass civil disobedience campaign is due-to start tomorrow, but, judging from reports lrom the provinces, there is little indication of any wide sympathy with the movement.

Gandhi himself, with eighty followers, has almost reached liis objective, which is the village Dandi, in the Snort district, Bombay, where lie proposed to. gather, or. manufcatnie the salt deposits left by the tidal waters. Z

■ GandhiV, disappointment at his nonarrest hv tlie ■ Government is 'becoming more- acute, but it is believed he has a nqw card ready to play when he is -certain that tlie Government’s plan is ignore Jiiiii. The. belief is held that Gandhi will not be arrested unJess he so forces the issue as to leave no other alternative for the Government, The authorities have made elaborate plans in case of any disturbance, and •uifmed ' jjoHce-'' have been', ■drafted to Dandi. and British troops are being held in readiness at various centres in the Bombay presidency. Governor Sykes (Governor of Bombay) was due to leave Bombay this morning for a tour of the Executive Council. This has been postponed, presumably owing to development in connection with Gandhi’s movement:;

/NATIVE STRIKERS

DELHI, April 5

Sengupta presided at a meeting under the auspices of the Calcutta trade Unions, which passed his resolution calling on all the workeis to .start a general strike as a protest aganist the police intcrefencc with the carter’s agitation.

Several thousand railway strikers, who attacked the Victoria railway terminus station in Bombay, ueie dispersed by the police, who opened fire. Over thirty were injured • and were taken to the hospital.

A party of British people, returning from a cinema in a motor car. Were, stoned by the strikers. I wo, including a. woman, were injured.