GANDHI’S MASS PROTEST.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18537, 7 April 1930, Page 9

GANDHI’S MASS PROTEST.

Campaign Due To Start. INDIANS MAINLY INDIFFERENT. (United Press Assoc'atlon—By Electrlo 1 elegraph—CoDvriEht.) (Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI. April 5. Mahatama Gandhi's mass civil disobedience campaign is due to start tomorrow, but judging from reports from the provinces, there is little indication of any wide sympathy with the movement. Gandhi himself with eighty followers has almost reached his objective, which is the village of Dancfi, in the Surat district, Bombay, where he proposed to gather or manufacture the salt deposits left by the tidal water. Gandhi’s disappointment at nonarrest by the Government is becoming more acute, but it is believed he has a new card ready to play, when he is certain the Government’s plan is to ignore him. The belief is held that Gandhi will not be arrested, unless he so forces the issue as to leave no other alternative for the Government. The authorities have made elaborate plans in the case of disturbance. Armed police have been drafted to Dandi, and British troops are held in readiness at various centres in the Bombay presidency. The Right Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes (Governor of Bombay) was due to leave Bombay this morning for a tour of the presidency, but following a meeting of the Executive Council, this has been postponed presumably owing to the development of Gandhi’s movement. (United Press Assoclatian—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI, April 5. Sengupta presided at a meeting under the auspices of the Calcutta Trade Unions, which passed his resolution calling on all workers to join in a general strike, as a protest against police interference with the carters’ agitation. Several thousand rail strikers, who attacked the Victoria terminus station, in Bombay, were dispersed by the police, who opened fire. Over thirty were injured and taken to hospital. A party of British people returning from the cinema, in a motor car, were stoned by the strikers. Two, including a woman, were injured.