SACRIFICE OF LIFE

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1932, Page 5

SACRIFICE OF LIFE

GANDHI’S DETERMINATION..-.:; ~A HINDUS PROFOUNDLY MOVED, - " ) (Received-9 a.m.) -. ; ■CALCUTTA, September 15. J Orthodox Hindus, profoundly moved j by Gandhi’s threat to starve himselfi to death, as it was expected _/: l | be, are making desperate -•efforts r~to save him; from suicide.- • ; j Mandit Malaviya, a prominent: leader, 'lias appealed to- his community and’the depressed classes toviffebt,-at Delhi t the week-end to endeavour ■to reach an agreement on ’%J classes’ electorates issue. ' }j Although his suggestion is -generally V.S welcomed, the leaders of the' depressed V.;Sa (classes are-not enthusiastic r;-abotrt a 'nS conference and demand to know Gan.- •:« dhi’s alternative proposals : for “their future representation. . % POINT or PRINCIPUG. : . J GOVERNMENT’S INTENTIONS. - j REMOVAL TO PRIVATE HOUSE. ■ . (British, Official Wireless.) ’ -;J (Received 12.30 p.m.) j,.p RUGBY, September 15. The, Government’s intentions- -re- . v ; garding Gandhi, in view of .his"-voW to v begin on September 20 to ‘'fast unto death,” were announced in the Legislative Council at Simla . this afternoon, and are set out in thefollow- . ijj ing statement issued by the 'lndia Office in London:— ' - f< Mahatma Gandhi made -it:- clear -"".S by his correspondence- with the Prime#i|| Minister, Mr Ramsay: M^qlhiiisldf:Jhat he proposes to starve himself tb'-efeath, . not as a protest against his detention or against the measures- taken; fp.. deal with civil disobedience generally, nor--li| with the object -of securing- $ but on a point of principle- which is not related to the civil disobedience -v® movement. - ‘‘ It has been decided, as soon as Gandhi actually begins to. fast, that r| he should be removed from gaol to. a ■ --£i suitable place in a private residence, and the only restrictions that will be _ imposed upon him there, .as J at contemplated, is that he - "should '. be served with -an order" drfecting 'him to remain there. '■ kM ■... ■ ■■. .■ . -Anti “It is hoped it will prove sary to impose any further j.estription on Gandhi, but this is a 'matter 1 that'Vg it. # will depend primarily on whether liberty accorded him -is found to lend itself to the promotion of the disobedience movement, .dr " of"~ r any;l|| similar agitation directed against the'Clj maintenance of law and order^lV'T. ■ .;-n -f