INDIA INDIGNANT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1931, Page 9

INDIA INDIGNANT

DEATHS OF "MAIITYRS*

DEPLORED BY GANDHI

(Received 2utli Marcli, 11 a.m.)

DELHI, 24th March.

There were amazing scenes in th» Legislative Assembly this afternoon, ivhen members of the Nationalist, Party and three Independents walked out as a protest against the executions. Earlier in the session, Raiiga•chariar, the Nationalist leader, said that by carrying out tho sentences th« Government had flouted public opinion, and the action would lead to serious consequences. Sir James Crerar, the Home Member, replied that the men had had it fair trial. I The Assembly adjourned. In most cities and towns all over. India business is almost completely, suspended, and resolutions of protest | were carried. j Tense feeling prevailed at Lahore all [ day long. All troops are standing to, and aeroplanes are ceaselessly flying1 over the city. Armed police are patrolling the streets. Nearly fifty thousand bare-headed men and women, carrying black flags, carried out a procession through the city, and held a mass meeting, at which leaflets were distri-1 buted, warning the Government that "no power, not even Gandhi, is nowable to stop the activities of the revolutionary parfy."

Youths were urged to resort to violence to avenge the deaths of the "martyrs."

Mr. Gandhi, while deploring the death of "patriots," warned youths against copying their method, since freedom could never be obtained through murder. The Government had lost a golden opportunity of winning over th» revolutionaries, and had put a sever* strain on tho Delhi settlement.