INDIAN CONGRESSMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21166, 26 April 1932, Page 9

INDIAN CONGRESSMEN.

GOVERNMENT DEFIED.

BANNED DELHI • MEETING.

MANY ARRESTS EFFECTED.

SENSATIONAL TRAIN EPISODE

By Tolegraph—Pre?s Association—Copyright (Received April 25. 5.5 p.m.) CALCUTTA. April M

Mrs. Sarojiri Naidu, acting-President of the Indian National Congress', was arrested on a train as she was leaving Bornbay for Delhi, where she had intended to attend a meeting of the Congress in defiance of the Government's ban.

Other delegates were arrested at Bom bay for similar defiance.

Subsequently Mrs. Naidu was sentenced to one year's simple imprisonment. More than 50 Congressmen were arrested on their arrival at Delhi to attend tho banned meeting. As the result of these arrests there is tense excitement at Delhi. The authorities succeeded in rounding-up most of the provincial Congress delegates, but a few managed to meet secretly. Theso delegates carried resolutions pledging loyalty to Gandhi and resolving to continue the civil disobedience campaign till India has achieved freedom. Thirty political prisoners, who were being conveyed by train from Aligarh to Lahoro at midnight, overpowered their escort of 10 constables, seized their rifles and shot two of tho constables, one fatally. They then stopped the train and escaped into the jungle.