UNREST IN INDIA.
NO TAX MOVEMENT.
VILLAGES EVACUATED. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright DELHI, Tuesday. The agriculturists of 25 villages in the Bardoli district, the centre of the no-tax movement in West India, made a dramatic evacuation as a protest against the Unlawful Association Ordinance. The district, which has an area of 222 square miles and a population of 82,000 agriculturists, has on account of the Congress agitation fallen into arrears with tax payments for three years amounting to £IB,BOO. When the Ordinance was applied the villagers anticipated measures for the attachment of property, and when the tax officers arrived they found deserted villages, the inhabitants having evacuated them, taking everything movable, including the newly-harvest-ed rice crop, household goods and cattle. It was discovered that the villagers had been secretly removing goods and crops by night across the border into Baroda State territory.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 October 1930, Page 5
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