GUNNING FOR GANDHI
ARREST PROTECTED TO FRUSTRATE PLANS INDIA IN FERMENT Reed. 11 a.m. DELHI, Monday. Extremists in many centres of India are following Gandhi's lead in organising a campaign of civil disobedience. An important Sikh social organisation in the Punjab has placed 5,000 volunteers at Gandhi’s disposal. Gandhi has decided to leave a settlement near Ahmedabad on Wednesday, accompanied by 100 volunteers and male disciples. He hopes to reach Jalapore on the coast of Surat in the Bombay presidency in three -weeks’ time.
Five hundred British troops, stationed at Thow have been ordered to stand by and proceed to Ahmedabad if required. Native papers publish a report that Gandhi will be arrested before Wednesday and deported. NO ARMY INCREASE A British official wireless message from Rugby says the secretary for India, replying in the House of Commons, to question, said no representations had been made to him for an increase of the British army in India, and he was satisfied its present strength was sufficient for all emergencies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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169GUNNING FOR GANDHI Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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