GANDHI'S FAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1932, Page 7

GANDHI'S FAST.

SIGNS OF EXHAUSTION.

Agreement Hopes from Gaol Conferences. SYMPATHETIC FASTING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) . RUGBY, September 22. Mahatma Gandhi, who has his own physician in attendance the Yeradhi gaol, met the leaders of the depressed classes and discussed, the proposals for a solution of the problem of their representation in the Legislatures. High hopes are 6 till entertained of an agreement, approved by Gandhi, which would justify the British Goverrfcnent in modifying the, terms of the communal award in respect to the depressed classes. If such an agreement was reached Gandhi would presumably break his fa<=t. His strength is evidently not t£e same as- when he fasted for 42 days a few years ago. He is already showing signs of exhaustion after 30 hours. His wife, who is also a* , pqlitical prisoner, was transferred from~Yeravda gaol to take care of her husband. Gandhi was smiling, and cheerful at the end of his first day's fast. A wave of emotionalism is sweeping through the country. Hundreds of, Indians of all castes and creeds are fasting in sympathy with Gandhi. ■ Even political prisoners are declining to eat food.