TROOPS ON THE MOVE.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17973, 19 March 1930, Page 5

TROOPS ON THE MOVE.

POSITION IN INDIA. DESIGNS ON A GOVERNOR. GANDHI’S DISOBEDIENCE CAMPAIGI OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX. United tress Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright (Received March 19, 10.35 a.m.) DELHI, March 18. An unconfirmed statement is published in a Lahore newspaper that when the Punjab Governor, Sir Geoffrey dc Montmorency, was travelling in a car ,from Lahore to the village of Sheikupura the officers in charge of the police escort saw a young man running from the roadside. He gave chase and overpowered the suspect, who was found to be in possession of a revolver and a live bomb, also chemicals used in the manufacture of explosives. It is significant that nine Nationalists were arrested at Sheikupura three days ago for carrying on independence propaganda. Two troop trains, conveying 240 Indian infantry and cavalry, left Puna for the district of Surat, in the Bombay Presidency, where Gandhi proposes to carry out his threat to break ihe Salt laws, in connection with the civil disobedience campaign. Tanks manned with British troops of the Eighth Armoured Cars Gompany) stationed at Kirkee, are also en route for Surat. Smallpox has broken out amongst Gandhi’s campaigners, one of whom was left behind in the village of Anand. Gandhi is a‘fierce opponent of vaccination, and three children of the inmates of his settlement at Ahmedabad died last week of the disease.