GANDHI IN GAOL

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1933, Page 5

GANDHI IN GAOL

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED

RELEAST CONDITIONS STATED.

(British Official Wireless .)

RUGBY, August 19.

•Lord Wilfingdon on his return to Simla, with Lady Willingdon, from his Bombay tour, yesterday held a meeting with the Executive Council. Later the Government issued the following communique on the attitude towards Gandhi’s fast:

“Gandhi claims that the privileges promised by the Government to enable him, while in prison, to continue his campaign of untouchability are insufficient. The Government remind him that when at. liberty recently he concentrated not on untouchability work, but on. civil disobedience, and state that his present claim is to dictate terms of his imprisonment. At the same time, if he is willing to abandon all civil disobedience activities and incitements, the Government is willing to set him- completely at liberty, so that he can devote himself wholly and without restriction to- the cause of social reform,”

GANDHI STILL ACTIVE.

CALCUTTA, August 20.

After 48 hours without food, Gandhi spent the day in bed receiving visitors, giving out material for his newspaper, “Harijan.’l

GANDHI’S WIFE RELEASED.

■ (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, August, 21 Gandhi’s wife was released to-day to. nurse her husband. :

ALL QUIET ON FRONTIER

(Received this day , at 11.15 a.m.)

All is quiet oil the- frontier. \A tribal chief, commenting on : the air bombing, says that it Resulted in the destruction of a. few- hamlets of mud IIUtS.