GANDHI ARRESTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9

GANDHI ARRESTED

INFLUENCE A DANGER TO INDIA TOLERATION POLICY ENDED United P.4.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.50 a.m. DELHI Monday. The IndiaiT Nationalist leader, Gandhi, was arrested at his camp at Ivaradi. near Jalalpur, under conditions of the strictest secrecy by European police officers, the District Magistrate and a force of aimed police. He was placed on the Gujerat mail, and the train was slopped at Borivili. a small station 30 miles from Bombay, where Gandhi was taken out ami placed in a high-powered car aud driven to the Yervada central prison at Poona.

The Bombay Government in a statement on the arrest, says Gandhi’s campaign lias resulted in grave disturbances throughout India and while Gandhi deplored the outbreaks, he was. no longer able to control his followers.

“The Government has pursued a policy of toleration, even at the risk of the accusation of weakness,” it said, “but events have shown that the history of the earlier non-co-operation movement would repeat itself if the Gandhi campaign were allowed to continue unchecked.

"The Government of Bombay, in consultation with the Government of India, therefore, decided it was impossible to allow Gandhi to remain at large without grave dangers to the tranquillity of India.” TROOPS OCCUPY CITY

As a sequel to the lawlessness prevalent in Peshawar since the recent rioting and the activities of the agitators fomenting trouble among tha frontier tribesmen, a great militate demonstration of all arras, including airplanes, took place, when at dawn the British troops occupied the city, with the object of restoring order. The troops will remain in the city for two months. Gandhi was arrested under an ordinance of 1827. He is to be kept prisoner in Poona gaol during the pleasure of the Government. PESHAWAR SITUATION A British official wireless message says:— In the House of Commons. Sir Wedgwood Beilin Secretary for Ind.a, confirmed the arrest of Gandhi. He said he was informed that at Peshawar, where conditions had be< n difficult since the riots of April 23. the authorities were in complete control of the situation. The Peshawar district had been declared a proclaimed area under the Seditious Meetings Act. Asked whether the disaffection of certain Indian troops at Peshawar last week was an isolated action. Sir W. Benn answered that there had been no sign of any similar incidents elsewhere, and the regiment that was withdrawn had been replaced by a Ghurka regiment. Replying to further question, he said on April 1 tbe strength of the British forces in India was approximately 59,700, and the establishment was 55,915.