RAID ON SALT WORKS
GANDHI VOLUNTEERS
WOMAN LEADER L'EMOVED
DELHI, 1711? May
A' large number of Congress volunteers, who have been waiting for some timo to raid the salt depot at Dharasna, near Bombay, eluded the police guards at noon yesterday and rushed toward the salt pans. * Nine volunteers were injured in the ensuing scuffle.
A batch of voluutecrs, commanded by Mrs. .'■ Naiclu, were removed bodily by thp police after having lain on the road for twenty-eight hours. .
Following the bombing' of certain villages on the Mohmand border by the Air Force and a round-up of agitators by troops and police, the situation on the north-west frontier is now reported to be improving. Kevolutionary gangs known as "Bedshii'ts" are. showing considerable activity in cutting the barbed-wire in front of British posts at night.
Several Congress leaders have been arrested in Koha Bannu and Thai. In the last-named troops were called in to deal with a threatening mob.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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157RAID ON SALT WORKS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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