Mr. Gandhi's campaign of "non-violent non-co-operation" has led to further
- disorders in the United Provinces. Last Saturday at dhauri Omura, near Gorakhpur, a body of Gandhi " volunteers " attacked the police station, murdered the twenty-one policemen and watchmen, and burnt the building. At Bareilly on the same day a large body of " volunteers " marched in procession, despite official orders to the contrary, and tried to seize the town hall. They attacked the police with brick- bats and had to be dispersed by rifle-fire ; two of the rioters were killed. In the Guntur district of Madras the organized refusal of the villagers to pay land tax, as a first step in the "civil disobedience" advocated by Mr. Gandhi, is breaking down. The Government's threat that the defaulters' holdings will be sold is bringing the villagers to their senses.
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