Dandi, Apr. 6.
After. prayers Gandhi, with 84 volunteers, proceeded at exactly am, for a bath in the sea. A large crowd accompanied the party, Gandhi himself walking at a slow pace and with grave solemnity.
Gandhi's volunteers entered the sea water amid loud cries of "Mahatma Gandhi Kijai." They then proceeded to break the Salt Laws by picking up the salt lying on the shore.—Reuter.
Talalpur, Apr. 5.
Four hundred armed police have arrived at Dandi and 100 more have gone there in readiness for any eventualities to-morrow Gandhi has announced that if he is arrested Abbas Tyabji, a retired High Court judge from Baroda, will take his place.
Relays of volunteers are ready to start selling contraband salt at Ahmedabad to-morrow, No police were present when Gi \dhi's followers broke the Salt Law.
Gandhi, while his volunteers were picking the salt, leant on the shoulder of the daughter of Abbas Tyabji. Miss Abbas Tyabji was also accompanied by Mrs. Sarojin Maida who hailed Gandhi as the Gandhi, in a statement to the press' advising the workers everywhere to. manufacture salt, said that the war against the salt tax should be "continued during the National Week up to April 13.
"Those engaged in this sacrod work," he said, "should devote! themselves. to vigorous propaganda for a boycott of foreign cloth and the prohibition of liqueur.
He added that he was preparing a message for the women of India who, he was becoming more and more convinced, could make a larger contribution than the men towards the attainment of independenc Apr. 6.
Mahatma Gandhi has broken the Salt Laws—Reuter, Bombay, Apr. 6.
Gandhi, in a message to the idven, said "Let the kiddies. spin while their elders court the gaol."
The Committee of Gandhi's volunteers broke the Salt Law at Juhu beach, ten miles from Bombay, this morning by boiling sea-water. No police were present and there was no incident.
He arrived at Viragam, from Ahmedabad, with a 55. volunteers each car: pounds of salt. The Sup of Police at Ahmedabad arrested the party and seized the salt.
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—Reuter.
Surat, Apr. 6. reported that Ramdas. Gandhi, the son of Mahatma Gandhi, and a few other volunteers hat been arrested at Bhimrad village in the Chorasi district—Reuter.
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