CRISIS IN INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 20988, 30 December 1931, Page 7

CRISIS IN INDIA

GANDHI'S DECLARATION NON-VIOLENT ATTITUDE ABANDONED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, December 29, Mr Gandhi is again talking of renewing his struggle with the Government. Addressing a mass meeting at Bombay, he said he would not flinch at sacrificing 1,000,000 lives for India’s liberty. Ho invited the country to be ready to fight, and added that ho did not expect to ho able to exercise the same restraint upon himself as before if it came to taking a strong stop. He emphasised that in the last fight they had to face police staves, but this time it would be bullets. Ho had no intention of seeing the Viceroy, as was reported.

MR MACDONALD'S CONDEMNATION

LONDON, December 28

“The whole situation is most deplorable,” said Mr Ramsay MacDonald when commenting on tho renewed Indian disorders. “It is very hard when tho Government has given greater proof than its predecessors of its readiness, in conjunction with the Indian leaders, to agree to a very large broadening of freedom that the exponents of violence and disorder should have dashed the offered cup from India’s lips. The recent events do not represent a baffled, oppressed India struggling to be free, but a mischievous movement trampling upon Indian progress. Every Indian who cares for his motherland must see therein tho hand of mischief instead of the spirit of emancipation.”