POLICE IGNORE GANDHI.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 9

POLICE IGNORE GANDHI.

Disobedience Campaign. SALT-GATHERING PROCEEDS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, April 6. Mr Gandhi has arrived at his destination at Dandi and will inaugurate the campaign, of mass civil disobedience by marching with his volunteers to the seashore, drawing water In pots and leaving it in the sun to evaporate, after which salt will be manufactured, thus flouting the law. Nationalists throughout India have planned demonstrations to break the salt laws and in many centres salt will be manufactured publicly to-day. The Bombay Government announce® that the salt to be manufactured by Mr Gandhi from natural deposits contains chemicals, which are injurious and make the salt unfit for human consumption. Mr Gandhi easily leads the field in amassing honours in the civil disobedience campaign. He had the satisfaction of producing over a ton of salt, which is by no means palatable, and comes under the Government edict as unfit for human consumption. The authorities are ignoring Gandhi’s efforts, and, greatly to his disappointment, he still remains a free man. The police, however, took swift action in another district of Bombay, where they arrested Katari, one of Gandhi’s chief lieutenants and fiftyfive volunteers. Reports from other parts of India prove that the opening of the campaign has been reduced to a farce.