INDIAN UNREST.
GANDHI’S CAMPAIGN, (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 8. Captain Wedgwood'Benn, Secretary of State for India, was questioned in the House of Commons to-day regarding the effects of the' campaign conducted by Gandhi in India. Captain Benn replied: “As the House is aware, Gandhi’s march has caused a certain amount of excitement in the Bombay Presidency, particularly in the districts actually traversed, and a small proportion of village headmen have resigned temporarily at any rate. Elsewhere little general interest appears to have been aroused. The main objects of Gandhi’s campaign to defy the Government by breaking the Salt Laws'has only just been initiated and it is too early to form any opinion as to the effects.” Asked whether, any' steps had been taken by tho Government of Lidia to prevent mass civil disobedience, Captain Benn said that the policy of His Majesty’s Government was stated by tho Viceroy in his speech on January 25. This policy would be pursued as circumstances, might demand by the Government of India.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 9
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