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Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH. Margaret Webster, married, aged thirty-seven years, 'died suddenly at Port Chalmers last night. Ad inquest was held on the "body this afternoon. LATE CABLES CAPE TOWN Mar h 19.—A start lias been made with the demobilisation d: the Government foots. In response to the Prims Minister's the Chamber of Mines subscribed £20,000 for the relict o! distress on ti'.o ■Rand. The chamber states that as vacancies arisem future preference wiii be even to the men who volunteered for active service on special duty during the revolution. The Minister of Defence appeals to all employers to fjivo special consideration to the men who responded to the call.—A. and N.Z. 3 DELHI March 19.—1 n pleading guilty. Gandhi made both oral and written statements, admitting that the preaching of disaffection had become a passion with him. The trial hinged on four, seditious articles which were r-nMshed in 'Young India/ of which Gandhi is tho editor.—A. and Is.Z. M EELin March 19.—Gandhi, in a lengthy statement before ho was sentenced, said'that ho took all blame for tho disorders at Madras, Bombay, and Chanvavpatnc He said that, if set free he would stall play with f.vo though non-Viclence was the first and. last article of his faith. He hau no ill-will agrin.t anv particular ndmini.-tratnr. nor deflection towaiu;. tlw Kin a 's person, He was prepared cheerfully to submit to the hignest penalty winch could bo inllicted. The judge said it was impossible to o-nore the fa.;t that Gandhi was regarded by millions of his country,,:.-! as a "reat pa'riotic leade-, and he was a man with high ideals and even sainMv life He could not understand how Gandhi continued to believe thai' violence would not bo the inevitable consequence or his teaching. When he was sentenced Gandhi thanked the judge, stating that the sentence W; ' S loSSlfirtl"S r iia S postponed his Bight until The Bishop of Colcheste,~A, arid N.Z. Cable,