GANDHI IGNORED
THE OFFICIAL ATTITUDE DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) DELHI, April S. Thousands of villagers who journeyed to Aat, in Bombay Presidency, expecting to see Gandhi arrested, were disappointed, the authorities completely ignoring the -Mahatma, who exhorted his hearers to abandon the attitude of non-violence and resist to the utmost confiscation of any of the small quantity of salt he and his followers distributed. He is urging the women especially to defy the authorities to touch them, which would constitute a deadly insult, in native eyes. Demonstrators arrested in several places were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. A fracas between Gandhi’s volunteers and the police in Delhi resulted in slight injuries to .seven of the former, who were carried through the streets as evidence of the “Government, repression” methods.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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