GANDHI ARRESTED
INDIAN LEADER OFFENDS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON. Tuesdav. ~ Th ® ‘' T jnies” of India says the Nationalist leader, M. K. Ghandi, has been arrested at Calcutta because some foreign cloth was burned in a bonfire. The act was in disobedience of a prohibitory order issued by the Commissioner of Police. ■ was reported on October 20. 1928, that Gandhi might lose his leadership in India as a result of the killing of a calf, winch was suffering great pain from an incurable disease. Gandlii broke the laws of the Hindu religion, when he ordered the animal to be killed, to end its agonv The Nationalist leader, whose full name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was born in 1869. His father was Chief Minister of the State of Porbandar Western India. Gandhi was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1888. In 1893 he retuimed to India, and placed himself at the head of the Indian community and organised a passive resistance campaign against certain legislation, and he went to prison for a time. Later he advocated “swaraj,” or full selfgovernment for India. His severe asceticism has earned for him the title of ’’Maliatma," and a great reputation among his co-religionists*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 9
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