Simla, Apr. 22.
The situation is distinctly easier} after last week's ferment, according to reports from all important centres of the civil disobedience campaign, The prompt promulgation of the Bengal Ordinance for the suppress sion of terrorist outrages has outwitted Bengal terrons The situation in Calcutt has much] improved.
The Punjab is quiet.
There was some excitement at tsar, but it calmed down, Even is factory is the absence of dangerous excitement in the towns of the United Provinces, in spite of the, arrest of local ' Nationalist Sporadic disturbances are not re-' garded anywhere' in India as indicating against the is recognized that, the situation demands constant, Bombay, Apr. 22.
Mr. K. M. Munshi, who was a prominent "member of the Bombay Legislature till he resigned recently to join the civil disobedience volunteers, was to-day convicted of incite ing others to disobey the Salt Laws and was sentenced to six months' simple imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 300 rupees or, alternatively, to serve another two months' simple imprisonment.
Professor Gharpure, the president of the "War Council" and one of the Joint secretaries of the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee, has been arrested at Bhatiabang.
Apr. 23.
Sadhu Swami Drand, one of Gandhi's civil disobedience volunteers, who was put in charge of the vil disobedience camp at Parli a suburb of Bombay, when the former superintendent was arrest~ ed, has been sentenced to eight) months' rigorous imprisonment and fine of Rs. 200—for breaking the Laws.—Reuter, Ten Volunteers Arrested Madras, Apr. 22. ight persons were injured to-day the result of a charge made by the police following a demonstration of 5,000 persons on the beach under the auspices of the Civil Dieobedience Committee.
A large crowd gathered to-day' rear the police station in the centre of the city and stoned the police. The crowd ignored the repeated arnings of the Deputy-Commis ner, and the police charged with it lathes and dispersed the mob, which later gathered again and stoned another police station.
Ten volunteers have been arrested, charged with intimidating shop-
Calcutta, Apr. 22.
'The police to-day raided the pre-of the newspaper "Advance,'
ished in English, and arrested the editor, Mr. P. K. Chakravai fon charges in connection with an article on civil disobedience.
The secretary of the Bengal Disobedience Council was also arrested to-day.
Political prisoners in the Alipore Gaol, including Mr. Sen Gupta, mayor of Calcutta, and have begun a hunger strike as a protest against the alleged use of undue violence by the gad officials to enforce obedience to the gaol re-
Apr. 23.
Professor Bijay Kumar Bhattacharyya, the "swaraj" vice-pri ident of the Howrah municipality, and twenty-nine other persons were arrested to-day while picketing shops in the Howrah market selling foreign cloths. Most of these shops are owned by Moslems. Several persons, including an English police superintendent, were injured in a melee between the police and the civil disobedience volunteers. message just received from Naokhali states that Jatindra Nath Roy, the offer in_charge of the police-station at Feni, and two policemen were shot today while searching four men. The assail-Jants escaped.
As a consequence of reports that the Mayor of Calcutta, Mr. Sen Gupta, had died in prison, and that the prominent Nationalist, Mr. Subhas Chandra Bore, was very ill lowing to their alleged hunger-strike, thousands of persons gathered today outside the Alipore Gaol, where they are incarcerated, and demanded to "see the bodies."
The police were ordered to disperse the mob.
'A communique was issued later denying that Mr. Sen Gupta and Mr. Bose were on a hunger-strike and stating that they were as fit as when they entered prison.
'The District Magistrate at Chittagong, in a statement issued to-day concerning the disturbances Saturday, when a body of insurgents attacked' and gutted the railway and police armour ies, reports that fourteen arrests have been made s0. far, but that the main body of the raiders is still at liberty.
Combined detachments of the Surma Valley Light Horse and the Eastern Frontier Rifles had an engagement yesterday evening with. the raiders, who had taken strong: positions on a hill. As a result, 12 of the insurgents were killed and two seriously injured. There were no military casualties-—Reuter.
Karachi, Apr. 23.
'The Health Officer has endered the destruction of a quantity of contraband salt as being unfit for consumption, og it is impregnated with'
iphide.
Sever 1 persons ate of this" salt and, as a consequence, had to be taken to hospital.—Reuter.
Jalalpur, Apr.
Inquiries in official circles with regard to Mahatma Gandhi's complaint that the police had thrown powder into the natural salt lying around Aat, rendering the salt bitter and unpalatable, show that the allegation is entirely false—
Simla, Apr. 24.
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