Gandhi Losing Strength

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 7

Gandhi Losing Strength

Meanwhile Rajkot Dispute Claims Wiier Interest VICE REGAL INTERVENTION URGED United Press Association*—By Electrlo Telegraph-—Copyright. Received Monday, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, March 6. Tho Bombay correspondent of the limes reports that Mahatma Gandhi’b doctors state that he has lost 21bs. eince the beginning of his fast. His general weakness is increasing. Tho Delhi correspondent of Tho Times bays that tho Press reports that the Congress Ministries in Bombay, Bihar, the United Provinces, and the Central Provinces have asked the Viceroy to intervene in the Rajkot controversy, both from the viewpoint of Mahatma Gandhi's life and tho possibility of the Ministries resigning. The dispute is causing widespread concern. There is much criticism of the ruler of Rajkot, whose removal the newspaper Statesman advocates. The Rajkot Advisory Council issued a statement that Gandhi’s ultimatum contained unreasonable demands and implied the surrender of authority to outside dictation. Gandhi did not express a word of regret, it was stated, when he found that his allegations of terrorism were unfounded. Gandhi retorts that the statement is full of evasions and misrepresentations. Thirty-five persons were killed and 200 injured in a riot.