UNREST IN INDIA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11175, 7 April 1930, Page 5

UNREST IN INDIA

GANDHI’S CAMPAIGN. DISA PPOINTMENT AT N ON- ' • ARREST. 0 FFICIAL EM ERG EN CY MEASURES. United Press Aasn. by'Bl. Tel. Copyrißht (Received, April 6, 5 p.m.) DELHI, April 5. Gandhi’s ‘mass oifvil disobedience campaign is due. to start. to-morrow ; hut, judging from reports from the provinces, there is little indication that there is any wide sympathy■ with the movement. Gandhi himself, with eighty Followers, lias almost reached his objective ,which is-the village of Dan di, in the-Surat district of Bombay, where he proposes to gather or liiannfactnro* salt -. deposits -left by 4lietidal waters. Gandhi’s disappointment at nonarrest by, the Government is • becoming more acute, hut/ it is believed that he has a. new card ready to • play, when lie is certain the Government’s plan is to ignore him. The belief is held that Gandhi will not he arrested unless he. so forces the issue as to len\e no other alternative for the Government. 'flic authorities have made elaborate plans in case ol disturbance. Armed police have been drafted to Dnndi and British troops are held in readiness at various centres in Bombay Presidency. Governor Sykes of Bombay was due to leave Bombay this . moining for a tour, of the Presidency hut,, following a meeting of the Executive Council, this has been postponed, presumably owing to developments in connection with Gandhi’s . movement. ... j CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE. United Preßs Assn, by 81. Tel- Copyright (Received April 0, 5 p.m.) DELHI, April 5. Sengupta presided at a meeting under the auspices o! tlie Calcutta trade uiiious, which passed his resolution calling upon all workers to engage in a general strike as a protest. "against police interference with the carters’ agitation. Several thousand - rail strikers who attacked the Victoria terminus station 111 Bom--I,ay were dispersed hv the police, who opened lire. Over thirty were injured and takeq to hospital. A party of British people returning from a cinema in a motor ear were stoned by the. strikers. Two, including a woman, were injured.