GANDHI SUPPORTED BY INDIAN CONGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 30 March 1931, Page 1

GANDHI SUPPORTED BY INDIAN CONGRESS.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DELHI, March 28. The Congress Working Committee at Karachi passed a resolution confirming the Delhi agreement between the Viceroy and Gandhi. It also voted confidence in Gandhi, and appointed him head of the conference delegation to Londonl Other resolutions reaffirmed the goal of complete independence, with control of the army, foreign relations, finance and fiscal policy, and the release of all political prisoners. Members of the Nau Jawan Sasha, or Youth League, which included frontier Bolshevists who were wearing red coats with the insignia of the hammer and the sickle, attacked the Delhi agreement and Congress policy. They outlined a programme that included an intensive boycott of British goods. Death Roll at Cawnpore. The death roll at Cawnpore, following the Moslem-Hindu conflicts, is officially stated to be 124, including eighty-nine Moslems and thirty-five Hindus. Several women and children are among the victims. It is estimated that the wounded number 400, the majority of whom are Moslems. More than 100 houses were burned, and much property was damaged. One hundred and fifty arrests were made. The people are in a panic, 10,000 have fled from the city, and business is suspended. The supply of food from nearby villages has broken down. Armoured cars, troops and 1200 armed police are patrolling the streets. Requests for the declaration of martial law were refused.