INDIAN LEADER FINED.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 2982, 28 March 1929, Page 5

INDIAN LEADER FINED.

GHANDI IN TROUBLE. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) . Calcutta, March 27. Ghandi and four other Nationalists, who were accused of burning foreigncloth in the Mirzapore Park on March 5, were each fined Is 6d. The Magistrate declared the park a public thoroughfare, and as Ghandi said he did not want to break the law, only a nominal fine was necessary.

The Times of India of March 5, stated that the Nationalist leader, M. K. Ghandi, had been arrested at Calcutta because some foreign cloth was burned in a bonfire. The act was in disobedience of a prohibitory order issued by the police.

(Tt was reported on October 20, 1928, that Ghandi might lose his leadership in India as a result of the killing of a calf, which was suffering great pain from an incurable disease. Ghandi broke the laws of. the Hindu religion when he ordered the animal to be killed to end its agony. The Nationalist leader, whose full name is Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi, was born in 1869. His father was Chief Minister of the State of Porbandar, Western India. Ghandi was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1888. In 1893 he returned to India, and placed himself at the head of the Indian community and organised a passive resistance campaign against certain legislation, and lie went to prison for a time. Later he advocated “swaraj,” or full selfgovernment for India. His severe asceticism has earned for, him the title of “Mahatma,” and a great reputation among his co-religionists.)