CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 5

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

GANDHI'S (CAMPAIGN ITS SIGNIFICANCE (Aust. und N.Z. Cable) Rugby, April Id. Questioned in the House of Commons regarding (he civil disobedience movement in India, tine Secretary for India, Captain Wedgowood Bonn, sa id the movement initiated by C a mild had developed generally along (he lines anticipated. Broadly speaking it might he. .said that the defiance of the salt law had in itself not earned much trouble. Ifs real "significance lay in the attempt to use if as a means of rousing public sentiment to a dangerous pitch, and iti mio or two places public demonstrations bad, ho regretted t * say, resulted in clashes with the police. It was t o< > early yet to give* an appreciation ot the effects of the campaign, hut he had every confidence that (he steps taken by (lie Government of India would be adequate* to d°ftl wit li tlie situation as it might d "chip. VIOLATION OF 3A hi’ LAWS NATIONALISTS SENT ENO ED Delhi, April i*s. Two prominent Nationalists, the Pundit -Tawaharlnl Nq|jtru, president of the Indian National Congress, 'and Sen Gupta, Afayar of ( ::!■*:* !'. line each been sentenced t<> sin months iniipriso'nment for violation of th e salt laws and reading publicly extracts of seditious !.torn |U*e Nehru, who will be treated as sn ordinary political prisoner appointed Gandlii to- act as congress president in his stead.