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interpreting last, dangerously clambered on the run- the night's announcement 011 Mr.ning boards, butters, and even Baldwin's Round Table decision, roofs of the coaches, showering says that Conservatives do not the Mahatma with gifts of money object in principio to a further and garlands of flowers. Round Table Conference in India, The Nawab of Palanpur boarded if such will prove desirable in due the train at Palanpur, and accom- course; but they do object to panted Gandhi for
some distance. such a conference at the present They rode on the bare wooden time on the grounds of pro-seats of a third class carriage, the cedure. They consider the present Nawab strangely contrasting with
simple atmosphere in India unsuitable for the
robed Mahatma..
BALDWIN'S FOLLY such a conference and contend Reuter.
GREAT CRISIS IN EMPIRE'S HISTORY.
London, Yesterday.
The gravity of the Conserva-" tive change of front to India is
that the Government did not initiate the preliminary enquiries OIL PROSPECTING, they had promised before a fur- ther Round Table Conference. It is declared that Mr. Baldwin's de- cision is by no means a new de- elop ten of policy, but merely Mr. Baldwin's considered view as regards the right procedure.
Gandhi's Vow,
COMPANIES SECURE RIGHTS IN DUTCH INDIES.
Ahmedabad, Yesterday.
CONCESSIONS APPROVED.
The
The Hague, Yesterday. Upper Chamber to-day
A year ago Gandhi vowed that voted 4,600.000 florins to aid the
illustrated by comments in the he would not return to his semin- evening papers.
ury here till a constitution ne potato starch industry, and the The Evening Standard (the ceptable to the All-Indin Congress Second Chamber approved of two Beaverbrook organ), says that had been achieved by the Round Bills authorising the Government while Mr. Duff-Cooper, Mr. Table Conference. Asked what'
to conclude agreements with the Stanley Baldwin's champion at he would do if the forthcoming St. George's by-election, was de meeting of Congress in Karachi Colonial Petroleum and Batavia claring in a speech last night that rejected the Irwin-Gandhi agree- Petroleum Companies, regarding the recent cartoon in an evening ment, Gandhi replied that in that concessions of prospecting and 1paper ridiculing Lord Irwin case he would not be called to the exploitation rights in oil in cer
should be treated as a treasonable Round Tolo Conference. offence, Mr. Baldwin was doing worse. He was deserting Lord Irwin, whom he had hitherto vehemently supported.
Tho article adds that the effect of this amazing reversal by Mr. Bwin was that he had damaged himself, the Conservative Purty and the country.
Riot in Bombay.
tain areas in the Dutch East Indies. Reuter.
PERU PEACEFUL.
PERIOD OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.
Bombay, Yesterday. Following the recent fighting in Muljijetha Market (Bombay's biggest foreign cloth market), in which several Congress Volun- teers were badly knocked about! while endeavouring to interfere with a seller of foreign cloth, the The Evening News (the Rother-Native Piece Goods Merchants" mere organ), says that the Duke Association decided to close the of Plazatoro was Bayard and market until the arrival of Rustum combined compared with Gandhi on March 16, when it is Mr. Baldwin, who has so sudden- hoped that methods of "peacefni tudes, seems to be settling down ly withdrawn the support from picketing" provided for in the to a period of responsible govern- Colonel David Ocampo, which his friend, Lord Irwin, had Irwin-Gandhi settlement can be men derived such comfort.
Mahatma's Triumph.
Ahmedabad. Yesterday.
PROVISIONAL PRESIDENCY.
New York, Yesterday. Peru, after weeks of vicissi-
agreed to and arrangements may head of the Southern Junta, has! The Liberal Star says that alle renched for the disposal of accepted the provisional Pre- sidency offered him by Colonel week ago Hindu fanaties were foreign piece goods.-Reuter. obstructing the possibility of
Jiminez, head of the Northern Junta, who has been Presidenti pener. Now Tory fanaticism was barring the way to peace and pro-1 Within a couple of days of the for the past three days.-Reuter's
ress. It is unthinkable that the anniversary of his departure at American Service. Party which prided itself on its the head of a column of volunteers responsibility in Imperial affairs to initiate the civil disobedience should have thrown in its hand at movement, Gandhi returned
the frantic ep- one of the great crises in the Em- from Delhi amid pire's history.
thusiasm of his devotees, who
here
U.S. POLITICIAN DEAD.
Baltimore, Yesterday. The death is announced of Mr.
Atmosphere Unsuitable. raided his train at practically Joseph Cotton, Under-Secretary of An authoritative Conservative every stopping place en route, and State.-Reuter's American Service.
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