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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1930, Page 7

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GANDHI CAMPAIGNERS British Troops Move Into Troubled Areas. TANKS AND INFANTRY. (United P, A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) DELHI, March 18. An unconfirmed statement is published in the Lahore newspapers that when the Governor of Punjab, Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency, was travelling in a car from Lahore to the village of Sheikupura, the 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 to be 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 tlire.e days ago for carrying on independence propaganda. Two troop trains conveying 240 Indian infantry and cavalry left Poona for the district of Surat, in Bombay Presidency, where Gandhi purposes to carry out his threat to break the salt laws in connection with the civil disobedience campaign. Tanks, manned by British troops of the Bth Armoured Cars Company, stationed at Kirkce, are also en route to Surat. Smallpox has broken out among 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 inmates of his settlement at Ahmedabad died last week of the disease.