GANDHI'S
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 16, 1941.
MANOEUVRE
J. A. Spender On Congress Non-Violence Policy
No Need For DETECTIVE Alarm In India IN N.T..
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J. A, SPENDER, writing in the London "Times" yesterday, says: "I have long been subscriber to Mr. Gandhi's periodical ‘Harijan,' the latest number of which has just reached me, with an intimation that it is to be the last for the present,
SHOT DEAD
A Chinese member of) • the Hong Kong Police Force, Police Detective Ip Hung (No. C519) was shot dead last night in the New Territories.
A friend of the detective, Liu! Kan, who was accompanying him, was wounded seriously, and has been admitted to the Kowloon
"Gandhi explains that having been advis- ed it ought to be submitted to the censor he Hospital. has decided to suspend it rather than make this submission or expose himself and others to prosecution by not making it.
They were walking together in Kut Hing Street in Tai-O District at about 8.30 pm, when they saw
two suspicous characters.
Order-
ed to halt for a search, one of the men produced a revolver and fred at the detective.
Liu Kan grappled with the as- sailant and was wounded. Both men escaped.
"His writings in this periodical have thrown so much light on the present situation in India that I will ask your leave to add a general impression of them to what other cor- respondents have written to you recently by furnishing an example of the about our Indian policy.
ed his idea until he sees India doing a service to all the world
virtue and value of non violence. "He protests that he dislikes Nazism and Fascism quite DS "At the beginning of last sum- | Gandhi was taking up new ground much as we do and that he de- mer he (Mr. Gandhi) seemed to and he now made it known that sires to cause us the minimum of be entertaining an idea of obtain- | he had come to the conclusion embarrassment but that in seek- | ing political advantages for th-that any participation whatevering to raise conscientious objec-| dia by her participation In the by India in the war was contrary tion from the idiosyncracy of {1 war, and this was then supposed to his principle of "non-violence" | few thousand individuals to the to be the policy of Congress. and must be barred in the forum creed of a whole nation he is do-
"India, so far as Congress could of the conscience.
ing a service to all humanity and decide the matter, was to parti- "The development of this and to us too eventually, cipate on condition that she re- the mystification it caused to his ceived concessions variously de-supporters may be traced week fined as "complete independence" | by week in the files of "Harijan,' or "Dominion status," either im- "He has invited all objectors to mediately or in the near future, I state their views and has answer- "On this basis the Viceroy anded them with un ailing patience Government of India proceeded and good humour. to explore the ground and issued i a proclamation which they hoped would, even if it were not im- mediately acceptable pave the way for further negotiations.
New Gandhi Stand
"But while the debate on this matter was going forward Mr.
"The charge of inconsistency leaves him quite unconcerne. He frankly confesses that he took the wrong road about this or was mistaken about that but is passionately convinced that he is right now.
"Moral Miracle" "Week by week he has enlarg-
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"He sincerely believed the Dictators would qual) fore this manifestation but if they did not and the way were open to them to Invade India, he thinks they would be help- less before this moral miracle. "I have found it profoundly in- teresting to trace his development | of this doctrine week by week and have felt a very real respect for the unflinching courage with which he follows where his argument leads him.
Followers Perplexed "But, at the end of it all, he there is no possible reconciliation with him shert of adopting his views, going out of the war and
leaves us in a position in which
promising to eschew violence in
future dealings with our enemy. "Anything less would, from
Mr. Gandhi's point of view, be participation in Bin, "Where Mr. Gandhi leads Con- gress follows.
"It is evident from the columns
FRENCH REPLY TO VICHY ADMIRAL
But for pressure exerted by the Vichy Government the whole French Empire, in ad dition to the colonies, would have flocked to the banner of General: de Gaulle, declared Professor Rene Cassin, former President of the French Ex-Service- men's Association, speaking in London yesterday.
Cassin
Professor was replying to the assertion of Admiral Platon, Vichy's Co- lonial Secretary, that Great Britain intend- ed to grasp whatever she could of the French Empire. Reuter.
NEW P.A.A. ROUTE IN ATLANTIC
PAN-AMERICAN
AIRWAYS
ARE PREPARING TO OPEN A
NEW WESTBOUND TRANSAT- LANTIC ROUTE FROM LISBON
TO NEW YORK, VIA PORTU- < GUESE GUINEA & TRINIDAD, IMMEDIATELY, THE UNITED STATES CIVIL AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY GRANTS: PAN- AMERICA'S APPLICATION ΤΟ USE THAT ROUTE. REUTER LEARNED IN NEW YORK YES- TERDAY FROM A PAN-AMERI- CAN SPOKESMAN,
The first survey flight will pos- sibly be made this month by the Yankee C.ipper which has been specially
the re-built for
new route, which is nearly twice the distance of the Lisbon-Bermuda- New York direct service, but avoids the prevailing headwinds and gives the pilots better winter- time flying weather.
It also enables the Clippers to maintain better schedules and carry bigger loads.
Two other Clippers are being overhauled and will be used to maintain two weekly wintertime trips. Reuter.
QUISLING STORM
TROOPS RESISTED
WIDESPREAD RESISTANCE is being offered to the New Order the Germans are trying to impose on Norway, according to re- ports reaching the Norwegian Telegraphic Agency in Londan yesterday.
The tyranny of Quisling Storm Troopers has aroused the civilian population and dis- turbances have occurred. Several people were injured in fighting in Drammen where German Storm Troopers ill-treated people ar- rested in street fighting. People in the streets were attacked and reprisals followed. many of them are greatly, per- plexed both by his doctrine and out of prison and have to be by his explanations of it. Το suppose that any large number of imprisoned again, which may them are in any real sense con- scientious cbjectors would, I anı sure, be a mistake.
devoted to debates between him
and members of his Party that
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seem, even harsher.
no
No Need For Alarm: "But the relations of Mr. "I suggest that the Government Gandhi to Congress much more of India must be left to use its resemble those of a Dictator to own discretion in deciding what his 'Party' than those of
it is wise to do. There is ordinary political teader to his need for alarm. India British supporters. He, like Hitler and India as well as the India of the Mussolini, is 'always' right' and Princes is making a handsome when he speaks he must
be contribution to the war, both in cheyed.
men and materials and she will yet give us more of both.
Government Of Blimps
sent
Four Storm Troopers about to, be thrown into the river
were rescued by the Germans and a Storm Troop Leader mobbed.
Following the disturbances curfew was imposed in Stavanger.
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Arrests are reported from many parts, Including well- known people at Bergen. New prisoners continually arrive at the Ulven concentration camp nearby.
"Nor need we be at all dis- Meet Tyranny By Force "We must take it for the pre-couraged in seeking a solution of
An appeal to meet tyranny by that non-violence, is the new political problems by any of policy of Congress. But if so, the political manoeuvres or catch-force, has been secretly circulated the critics of our
in eastern Norway, Unrest has in- Indian policy cries of the moment.. may fairly be asked not to per-
"Complete Independence' creased by the German filching of which sist in the statement that the sounds formidable but again and the country's food stocks blocked by a Government of Co-me by Indian politicians that if aspirations of India, are being again I have had it explained to are rapidly dwindling.
Plain clothes police have been lonel Blimps and Imperialist Die- they can be free agents only for organised. in Oslo to deal with Hards.
a week, their self-respect will be hostile posters and sples to tap "This is the substance, of Ger restored and they will imme- telephones. man propaganda, especially in dietely make a treaty with us,
The Agency reports increase America, where Gandhism up giving us all that we.desire.. The peals to a generous and widely. Egyptian model is in their minds.host:ity between Quislingites, an
the Germans whose high officials. spread but uninformed opinion... Root Of The Matter regard Quisling and his; friends
"For he not only holds these.):
whh contempt and, ignoro so-call- opinions, as he is entitled to do,
Minister's, but hing instructed an important group of his followers to go out] and preach them to denounce the war and discourage recruit- Ing, with the consequence which he anticipates and invites, that they will be arrested and soli-
to imprisonment.
"9o far as political Indianaed aro: congerned, the root of the trouble la, that they feel their - self-respect.. to.. have been; Wounded when, they wore taken, into the war, without their con- sont being asked. This la... tho root of the mattor,
tence Government at war can be them, as it will show, others in The war will, I believe, show expected to tolerate this, but the the same position, the necessity
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“Rats!" Within.
"It is suggested that the Gar- mans, attitude: may: ba: deliber- ate to win, anti-Quisling, ela- menta, but antis German feeling. was naver" "stronger,
Disagreement is also reported
judge or magistrate who has to of a partnership with a strong among Quislingites, some "Minis- deal with these cases, im- power, but we, must then, more tors" and party officials resenting | mediately finds himself in a than ever, persist in the en- the German, candust; and, some dilemma. If he gives long deavour to make. It a real part- | party members have resi
Windsor House, Hong Kong: Branch Manager. E. J. R. MITCHELL sentences he will be denounced hership in which they will have The Hirdmannen" the. Störm
Tel, 20601
for harshmess. If he gives short the sense of working on a basis Troopers, Journal complaini Foreir-the-offenders"
of equal Controlling their own "Tate/ try fate.
their offences os soon as
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