INDIAN EVENTS
•—-*■ CRICKETERS AND POLITICS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, January 15. Five prominent Hindu cricketers at Bombay refused to participate in tbe trials to bo held at Patiala and Lahore to aid in the selection of the Indian cricket team for England, owing, it is understood, to the political situation, MRS GANDHI'S IMPRISONMENT CALCUTTA, January 16. Mrs Kasturbhai Gandhi, wife of the Congress leader, was convicted at Surat under the Criminal Law Amendment and sentenced to six weeks’ simple imprisonment. It is understood that the Government did not intend to arrest her, but that its hands were forced when she travelled through the villages in the Badoli district of Bombay in company with other women leaders inciting the peasants to refuse to pay taxes. RUMOURS ABOUT GANDHI CALCUTTA, January 17. Despite the Home Government’s denial, rumours persist in India that Mr Gandhi is likely to'bo released from gaol and interned in a remote village. The latest report is that Mr Gandhi and other political prisoners are being sent to Burma, The Burmese Government, however, denies knowledge of such a movo, while a Rangoon newswanted, and that the Government should protest against the Indian Government thus deposing of undesirables.
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Evening Star, Issue 21003, 18 January 1932, Page 9
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198INDIAN EVENTS Evening Star, Issue 21003, 18 January 1932, Page 9
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