Bombay, May 22. The Indian owned Bank of India paid out between six and seven day.
port that the manager of the Bank, Mr. A. G. Gray, had participated in the operations of the auxiliary force against members of the National Congress. This report was emp! tically denied by Mr. Gray—Reuter, Calcutta, May 22.
Except the newspapers "Liberty' and "Advance," the other Nationalist papers are resuming publica tion' despite the objection of the Bengal Civil Disobedience Council, which supports the Congress Working Committee's decision enjoining suspension until the Press Ordinance has been withdrawn, Civil Disobedience Volante visited the office.of the "Basumati newspaper, and gave the proprietor 48 hours to reconsider his decision to publish. Otherwise, it was stated, his staff would go on hunger strike, Addressing an audience of a 100,- 000 people here to-day Mr. V. J. Patel, late president of the Legis-1 Assembly, condemned the! baton charge made by the police at Dharasana yesterday as unjusti-
At the same time an official communique declares that the conduct of the crowd which attacked the Dharasana Salt Depot was by no means non-violent. Many of the "wounds" sustained by the civil obedience volunteers were lacera-
attempted to pull down. The com-ions from the barbed-wire they munique adds that the raid wa: skilfully staged with a vi curing the maximum of a ment. the motto of its organi clearly being that unseen heroism has no Press value.—Reuter.
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