DISOBEDIENCE UNABATED

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1931, Page 4

DISOBEDIENCE UNABATED

CONCILIATION BEING DEBATED

SALT-MAKIHG AND CLOTH BOYCOTT

ALLEGED HARSH TREATMENT.

GANDHI’S REQUEST FOR INQUIRY.

By Teleeraph—Press Assn.—-Copyright. Delhi, Feb. 5,

While the Assembly is debating a resolution urging the . Governriient to adopt a policy of conciliation towards Congress, the civil disobedience ment continues unabated arid even more intensive in pai'ts of the country.

Congress leadtrs at Bombay have started again the illicit manufacture of salt. Two hundred demonstrators picketed shops selling English cloth. Many were arrested after a clash with the, police. Gandhi has written urging the Viceroy to institute an official inquiry into the alleged harsh treatment of demonstrators throughout India by the police. If the Viceroy accepts, Gandhi, it is stated, will endeavour to -persuade Congress to take advantage of the Prime Minister’s offer to India. Gandhi said that, if returning conference delegates are able to explain satisfactorily the Premier’s declaration, and if in the light of his demands he sav a settlement possible, he was ready to call off civil disobedience. lu reply to the India Congress Party’s demand for the immediate ending of the ordinances whereby the subversion of law and order is prevented, the Government of India lias conveyed its answer through Sir Fazil Hussein, who stated that ordinances and other “repressive” measures would be tinned as. soop pa the necessity for them disappeared. The Government, as well as the public, knew the police charges caused misgivings but they would not take place unless deliberately provoke cd. . ' •- “NO TRUCK WITH TERRORISTS” BRITISH CONSERVATIVE ATTITUDE London, Feb. 5. Sir -SamUel Hoare, in'an article in the; Morning Post, that -when Mr. Baldwin said he would endeavour to im* plement the work of the India round table conference he meant that he would wqrk, for peace, but not peace at any price. There was ua intention in thr mind of any *Conservative that; the leader should sacrifice his imperial obligations. “There will be no truckling with -terrorists and no treaty with men determined to drive us from India. The Conservative position is most clear. “While we believe that an all-India federation will prove the best system of Government, we must Ibe satisfied that any change proposed will not endanger our obligations. Our command of the army must be clear and undisputed, internal security and financial stability must be safeguarded, the minorities protected and. the rights of the services preserved. There must be no unfair economic or commercial discrimination against the British trader.”

London, Feb. 5.