INDIAN UNREST
, FURTHER ARRESTS INCLUDING MRS. GANDHI; , Press Association E'ectric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 8.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Tuesday. Among prominent Congress members arrested are Mrs Gandhi, who now joins her husband in prison, and Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel. FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE. RUGBY, Monday. The situation in India remains generally calm and without notable incident. • -y '
Sir Frederick Sykes, the- Governor of Bombay, addressing a conference of leading Indian and European .business'- ■ men to-day, emphasised that the Government did not intend to follow the example of Congress and endeavour by coercive measures to compel trade to follow in any particular channel. The Ordinances, he explained, were / designed to protect trade from being, hampered. The Government insisted on freedom for everyone to trade how and where they .liked, and tend the fullest j/rotection against • molestation.
The Governor ! declared that the Indian Government adhered to the terms of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s statement at the close of the Round Table Conference and asked for the co-operation of the sober elements in the community. The Government was striving to prevent a bad legacy being left for the future.
A Peshawar message states that three days’ continuous rain has discouraged and dispirited the pieketers.— (British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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