GANDHI AND SMALLPOX

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 19 March 1930, Page 5

GANDHI AND SMALLPOX

THE LATEST SENSATION A GOVERNOR’S ADVENTURE IMPORTANT ARRESTS By Telegraph—Press Assn^-Copyright CAnst. and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 19, 10.35 a.m.) Delhi, March 18. An uncon finned statement published in the Lahore newspapers says when the Governor of the Punjab, Sir Geoffrey do Montmorency, was travelling in a motor car from Lahore to the village of Slicikupura the officer in charge of |he police escort saw a young man running from the roadside.

He gave chase and overpowered the suspect, who was found to be in possess ion of a revolver and n live bomb, also* chemicals used in the manufactures of explosives.

It is significant tliaf nine Nationalists were arrested at Slicikupura. three days ago for carrying on Gandhi's independence propaganda. Two troop trains conveying 240 Indian infantry and cavalry left, Pumv for fhe Suratin district in the Bombay Presidency, where Gandhi proposes fo carry out his threat to break the salt laws in connection with his civil djsobedion.ee campaign. Tanks manned with British t loops stationed at Kirkee are also on route for Surat-to-night. They will disembark at ten Gandhi’s campaigners, one of whom was left- behind in the village of A timid.

Gandhi is a fierce opponent of vaccination and three Indian children of his settlement at- Ahmedabnd d,ied lost week of fhe disease.