Mahatma Gandhi

CALCUTTA, March 5, 1929 (UP) - Mahatma Gandhi, long the religious leader of a greater part of India, was arrested today after crowds had tossed bricks and had burned pyres while he was espousing the boycott of all foreign cloth.

BOMBAY, India, May 5, 1930 (UP) -- Strong forces of British and Indian troops were ordered mustered for any emergency in the chief cities of India today as the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi was put in a British jail -- his most dangerous battlefront in the Nationalist campaign for independence.

DHARASANA, India, May 21, 1930 (UP) - Prayers said as white-clad volunteers knelt in the moonlight and an impassioned speech by the poetess-leader, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, opened the mass attack of 2,500 independence demonstrators today on the Dharasana Salt Works.

NEW DELHI, India, March 5, 1931 (UP) -- Orders for all independence workers in India to observe the peace truce signed yesterday by the Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin were issued today by the all-India Congress Working Committee.

LONDON, Sept. 14, 1931 (UP)The federal structure committee of the Indian round table conference met today to consider a constitution for India, holding one-fifth of the population of the world.

LONDON, June 3, 1932 (UP) - Rejecting the demands of the Mahatma M.K. Gandhi, the Indian franchise committee today published a report recommending the foundation for a responsible system of government in India.