MAHATMA GANDHI

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 5

MAHATMA GANDHI

ARRESTED BY INDIAN GOVT.

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BOMBAY, May 4 Gandhi has Ibeen arrested/

GAOL WITHOUT TRIAL

DELHI, May 5. Gandhi was arrested under an ord iiuince of the year 1827.

He will be kept a prisoner in the Poona Gaol during the pleasure of the Government.

GANDHI’S ARREST

GOVERNMENT PRECAUTIONS

(Received this dav at 11 a.m.) DELHI, May 5

Gandhi was arrested at a camp at Ivaradi near Jalalpore, under conditions of the strictest secrecy by European police officers, district magistrate and a force of armed police. He was placed on the Gurerate mail train which stopped at Borivili, a small station thirty miles from Bombay. Gandhi was taken out and placed in a high power car and driven to Yerwada central prison at Poona, Bombay. ' • '■

The Government making a statement on the arrest says Gandhi’? campaign resulted in grave disturbances throughout India and while he deplored the outbreaks he was no longer able to control his followers. The Government has pursued a policy of . toleration, even at the risk Of ihe >ccusation of weakness, but events have shown that history of the earlier non-co-operation movement would repeat- itself, if Gandhi’s campaign were allowed to be continued unchecked. The Government of Bombay, after being in consultation with the Government of India therefore decided it was impossible to allow Gandhi to remain at large witliou grave dangers to the tranquility of India. As a sequel to the lawlessness prevalent at Peshawar since the recent rioting and activities of agitators fomenting trouble among frontier tribesmen, a great military demonstration of. all- arms, including the, air force, took place when at dawn British troops occupied the city with the object of restoring order. Troops will remain in the city 'for two months.