MR. GANDHI'S FAST
CRITICAL1 LAST THREE DAYS
DANCER OF COLLAPSE
CALCUTTA, May 26. According to doctors, Mr. Gandhi has entered the critical final three days of his fast. He is now suffering physical weakness, and is unable to move, and speaks in the merest whisper. Hoi may collapse at any moment. Doctors say that there is just a chanco of his pulling through. There is speculation as to what will happen on Monday when the three weeks' fast is completed. Desa, his private secretary, declared that Mr. Gandhi will return to gaol if no compromiso with the Government is reached.
Mr. Gandhi on May 1 gavo the world a week's notice that ho had. decided unconditionally and irrevocably to fast for twenty-one days, commencing on May 8. He said the fast was a heart pvayer to' God for purification of. himself and his associates in the great work of improving the lot of India's untouchables and ontcasts. Many people thought the fast was part of a deep political game,, he said, but ho assured them it wan purely religious. He had no desire to die, but was prepared to do bo if God'willed. Bombay doctors declared that Mr. Gandbi, if he carried out his fast threat, would not live for twenty-one days, because his constitution was so frail.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 13
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