GANDHI DISSATISFIED
ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE LEADER NOT TO CO-OPERATE. BRITAIN TO CARRY ON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 13. News reached London today that the All India Congress, sitting in Bombay, has decided not to co operate with the Loudon Round Table Conference. The decision was arrived at following the receipt, by Mr. Gandhi, of what is regarded as an unsatisfactory reply from the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, to whom he addressed a grievance alleging coercion in the collection of the land tax in the Gujerat. The Bombay Government, however, found not only that the ordinary legal procedure had been followed, but that there had been no breach of the Delhi Truce.
Although the decision of Congress will be received with regret, the conference will proceed with its work according to plan*.
The co-operation of the Congress in the Conference was one of the primary objects of the agreement arrived at between the former Lord Irwin, and Mr, Gandhi,
The authorities in India carried out the terms of the agreement both in letter and in spirit. Everything possible, consistent with the responsibil ity of the authorities for the operation of the ordinary law, had been done to smooth away difficulties.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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