AN INDIAN REBEL.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1922, Page 5

AN INDIAN REBEL.

SENTENCE OF GANDHI. SIX MONTHS IN GAOL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn-—Copyright. Delhi, March 18. Gandhi has been sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment. Pleading guilty, Gandhi made both oral and written statements, admitting that the preaching of disaffection became a passion. The trial hinged on four seditious articles published in Young India, of which Gandhi is the editor. Gandhi, in a lengthy statement before he was sentenced, said he took all the blame for the disorders in Madras, Bombay and Chaurachaura. If set free he would still play with fire, though non-violence was the first and last article of his faith. He had no ill-will against any particular administrator and no disaffection towards the King’s person. He was prepared zheerfully to submit to the highest penalty which could be inflicted. The Judge said that it was impossible to ignore the fact that Gandhi was regarded by millions of his countrymen as a great patriot and leader, a man with high ideals, even of saintly life. He could not understand how Gandhi continued to believe that violence would not be the inevitable consequence of his teaching. When sentenced Gandhi thanked the Judge, stating that the sentence was as light as any Judge could pass.