Gandhi Drafts His Own Conditions

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1931, Page 2

Gandhi Drafts His Own Conditions

FOR CALLING OFF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m, DELHI, Feb. 14. Discussions at Allahabad between Gandhi and members of the Congress working committee and delegates to the round table conference on the subject of co-operation in the new constitution. Offer, so far have been fruitless. Gandhi last night drafted a resolution containing the following conditions for calling off civil disobedience; Firstly, a general amnesty; secondly, the immediate cessation of “repression”; thirdly, an inquiry into the allege'd police excesses; fourthly, liberty to carry on packeting liquor and foreign cloth shops; fiftly, restitution of all confiscated property and reinstatement of all Government servants dismissed or punished on political grounds'. TENSE SITUATION FOLLOWS MURDER OF MOSLEM Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. DELHI, Febi 14. There was a tense situation in Benares following the murder ox Mohammed Aga, a prominent Moslem merchant who persisted in the sale of British cloth against the Congress boycott. As Aga's body was being taken to the station for conveyance to Peshawar Moslem mourners demanded the closure of ‘Hindu shops as a mark of respect. The Hindus refused, and their shops were looted and they were attacked. A general conflict between Hindus, and Moslems followed, and the police, while endeavouring to separate the contestants, were fiercely attacked, and opened fire. British troops were called out and are at present patrolling the city with armed police. Up to the present there have been three killed and nearly 100 wounded. GANDHI TO MEET VICEROY Received Monday, 12.35 a.m. DELHI, Feb. J 4. The Hindu-Moslem riots at Benares had the effect of inducing Gandhi to agree to meet the Viceroy in an endeavour to roach a settlement of the Indian situation, probably on Tuesday.