The Archive · 1930

Advice to Followers

Borsad, Mar. 19, Mahatma Gandhi to-day addressed. 4 public meeting at Rans, no pro-bibitory order having been' enforced against him, 'The Mahatma, in the course hhis speech, said that as a reply te the arrest of Vallabhai Patel, Roa: should send 600 volunteers to' participate in the campaign of civil disobedience, Gandhi warned the volunteers that they would have to fight to the lust and that they would not be treated mercifully if they were urvested and sentenced, He added he had been told that if he manufactured salt it would be snatched from his hands, but he would like to sce how the Government could snatch salt from his hand, weak though he was.

The Mahatma has up to. the present received over 100 resigna-trons from officials in twenty-five district The Sale Tux Campaign New Delhi, Mar, 20 tion with Blahatia Gandhi's can:

ixnifeant that, in. connce-

paign' againat the Salt Tax, the Legislative "Assembly, by 61 votes to £0, today rejected an amendment the. Finance ill "brought for ward by the Indian members for the suppression of the: Government salt monopoly. The Finance Mem, ber, Sir George" Schuster, pointed

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