CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 9

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

MR GANDHI’S ATTITUDE

REASON FOR HIS ARREST

(British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

RUGBY, August 1

The Bombay Government has issued a statement explaining the reason for Mr Gandhi’s arrest, quoting his own words as showing his attitude towards disobedience. The Government maintains that there is no real* distinction between mass and individual civil disobedience, and states that Mr Gandhi contemplated that individual disobedience would lead to mass civil disobedience. The Government anticipated a repetition of the unfortunate result of the past civil disobedience campaign. The Government refused Mr Gandhi’s offer to make over to it his seminary on the grounds that it was no concern of the Government’s so long as the taxes were paid. The taxes have already been collected for this year.

Press messages from Calcutta state that the Hindu community is unmoved by the arrest and that life is proceeding as usual.

CONDITIONAL RELEASE,

CALCUTTA, August 1. Mr Gandhi is expected to be released in a certain place under orders not to leave it. Disobedience of the order means rearrest and trial under the special law recently enacted. The country throughout is apathetic to the news, indicating Mr Gandhi’s lost leadership.