AFTER GANDHI

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 9

AFTER GANDHI

SEEKING ARREST OF TROUBLE-MAKER INDIA RIOTS CONTINUE United, P ..4. —Ey Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Thursday. It is reported that the Cabinet has consented to the arrest of the Indian Nationalist leader, Gandhi, in the event of the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, considering it necessary. The arrest is regarded as imminent. A message from Delhi says Mahomed Ali, a prominent Moslem leader, telegraphed to the Viceroy suggesting that a rapprochement might be sought to bring about a peace which would be honourable both to the Government and Gandhi. -He appealed to Lord Irwin not to permit the situation to become grave by the arrest of Gandhi, as both Gandhi and the Government had made a sufficient demonstration of their strength, VICEROY’S REPLY In his reply the Viceroy reiterated the Government’s policy in dealing with the civil disobedience movement. He said: “So long as the law is openly defied neither I nor the Government can do anything but resist its subversion by whatever means may be in our power.” The Viceroy reminded Mahomed Ali where the responsibility lies for the present situation and concluded by stating that the policy of the Government in regard to the solution of India’s difficulties remains unchanged Davidas, son of Gandhi, has been sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment at New Delhi on a cha-ge of sedition. BRITISH BOYCOTT The movement for a boycott of British cloth is being intensified throughout India. Hindu cloth dealers at Calcutta. Bombay, Delhi, and the other principal cities have decided not to place further orders until the end of the year. The action ot Nationalist volunteers picketing cloth shops and preventing the sale of British goods is creating dissatisfaction among Moslem dealers, most of whom are exposed to the boycott. At Amritsar the Traders’ Arbitration Board considered the situation arising out of the boycott. It passed a resolution that the attention 'of the Viceroy be drawn to the fact that merchants are repudiating contracts, and that others are panic-stricken on account of the severe local trade depression. SEARCH FOR TERRORISTS A search for the remainder of the Chittagong terrorists, 30 of whom are still at large, is unsuccessful, and- a Government airplane is now aiding the military to search the hills. Another wounded attacker has died to 2-? spltaI ’ Ringing the total dead Papers found in the pocket of one of the dead men reveal that the raiders planned an attack on the Europe- ns on a large scale. The town is being patrolled by attachments of Indian troops.'