1939-03-06 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1939

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GANDHI WEAKENING Congress Leaders Visit Lord Linlithgow

Mrs. Gandhi Taken To Beside Of Mahatma

Rajkot, To-day.

A bulletin announced that Gandhi's blood-pressure has risen from 168 to 180, that he has lost two pounds in weight, spent a slightly restless night and is weaker.

Mrs. Gandhi who has been detained in a camp near

here since last Friday when she arrived to par ticipate in the civil disobedience campaign,

VICEROY RETURNS TO

NEW DELHI

New Delhi, To-day. The Viceroy has decided to cur- tail his tour of Rajputana and will arrive here to-morrów "morning.

The news has aroused great in- terest in political circles here, and It is thought that important do- velopments may occur to-morrow.

Reuter..

yesterday brought by car to her husband's bed-CONGRESS

side by the State authorities.

As it is not known whether she. It is likely that G. D. Birla, an has been released, Gandhi has intimate friend of Gandhi, will re- ordered her to return to the de- present Congress, and it is believ tention camp by this evening. Reuter.

VICEROY MAY INTERVENE

New Delhi, To-day. Reuter learns on very reliable authority that negotiations between mportant representatives of Coa gress and Lord Linlithgow with a view to settling the Rajkot dispute

ed that he will place definite pro- posals before the Viceroy for a solution of the dispute.a

Mr. Birla has assumed the role of mediator in previous disputeв.— Reuter:

MINES OUTPUT

Nielson & Co., Inc., Managers for the Hong Kong Mines, Limited, report 4472.1 short dry tons of ore treated for the month of February; from which 432.78 dry tons of Lead Concentrates were produced, aver

ACCUSED OF ¡DISHONESTY

New Delhi, To-day." "The Statesman,” in a leader, accuses Congress of "dishonesty" in alleging that paramount power is the obstacle to progress in the States and odds that misrule, where it does

es exist, is entirely contrary to every, Briton's fundamental ideas of civil liberty and justice.

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DEFECTS IN THE INDIA ACT

London, Yesterday.

A Bill to amend the Government of India and the Government of Burma Act was introduced in the House of Lords on Friday by Mar- guess Zetland, Secretary for India.

Object of the Bill, sald Lord Zetland, was to remedy defects in the Act shown up by practical ex- perience

There was no question of prin- ciple concerned, and the Bill main- ly affected the powers of the Cen- tral Government in New Delhi -în the event of war.

Provisions of the present Act were not affected.

JAPANESE GENERAL LEAVES

South

Major-General Tanaka, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces in China, left on his return journey to Canton in the Chitose Maru this morning, embarking from Queen's Pier.

Mr. Oda, acting Japanese Consul- The article emphasises that it General, was among those present does not believe for a moment that to see him off.

'Major-General Tanaka spent three the Indian ministers who propose to

that days in resign would tell the world

d, thus ending Gandhi's fast, will aging 68.76 per cent lead and 16.30 they are incapable of facing any pletion the Colony following com-.

robably begin to-morrow.

loz. Silver per ton.

sort of crisis.-Reuter.

the financial settlement of the border bombing incident.

Boston Bull Terrier.

Mr A lively looking Aisation.

Date for Entries for the Hon

Handsome is the Red Fetter.