26 APRIL 1930, Page 2

As usual, Mr. Gandhi has expressed his horror at deeds

which every experienced person told him must be the result of his policy. He has not gone so far on this occasion as to seclude himself and fast ; indeed, he has partly unsaid his formal protest against the violence of his followers by accusing the harassed and overworked police of having " provoked reprisals from an inflammable people." The special correspondent of the Times reports him as making the astounding declaration : "It is obvious that the Government does not want peace." •