TANKS AFTER GANDHI

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 925, 19 March 1930, Page 9

TANKS AFTER GANDHI

HIS STYLE CRAMPED BY SMALLPOX OUTBREAK GOVERNOR IN DANGER ZONE Reed. 9.25 a.m. DELHI, Tuesday. Two troop trains, conveying 240 Indian infantry and cavalry, left Poona for the district of Surat, in the Bombay Presidency, where Gandhi purposes to carry out his threat to break the salt tax laws in connection with his civil disobedience campaign. Tanks, manned by British troops of the Eighth Armoured Cars Company, stationed at Kirkee, are also en route to Surat. Smallpox has broken out among Gandhi’s campaigners, one of whom was left behind at the village of Anand. Gandhi is a fierce opponent of vaccination, and three children of inmates of his settlement, Ahmedabad, died last week of the disease. An unconfirmed statement is published in the Lahore newspapers that when the Punjab Governor, Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency, was travelling in a car from Lahore to the village of Sheikupura, an officer in charge of the police escort saw a young man running from the roadside. He gave chase, and overpowered the suspect, who was found in possession of a revolver, a live bomb, and chemicals used in the manufacture of explosives. It is significant that nine Nationalists were arrested in Sheikupura three days ago for carrying on independence propaganda.