GANDHI’S ARREST

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 6

GANDHI’S ARREST

[United Press Assooiation--By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] LONDON, May 13. In the House of Commons Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowitt explained that the suggestion that there had been a leakage of information regarding' the impending arrest of Gandhi had not been borne out by an enquiry. Three of the newspapers gave an assurance that their news of it had not been received from improper sources. It appeared that the announcement had been based reasonably on an inference drawn from something which the Rt. Hon. J. R. dynes had said. Nobody was blameworthy. Rt. Hon. Mr MacDonald, in answer to further questions, said that the information showed that there had been no leakage in. the proper sense ol the word. It was an inference or a. construction, tout, in the circumstances, this construction was as bad as it could be, and was culpable. Sir L. 'Worthington Evans (Conservative), “the journalist, merely made an intelligent anticipation!” Sir Kingsley Wood (Conservative), “The affair is a mere storm in a teacup.” Rt. Hon Mr Jowitt, in further reply, said that there was no question of tlie" journalist’s guilt or innocence. He was merely asked, under the Official Secrets Act, to reveal the source of his information.