Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-17
400 MARCH ON SALT
WORKS AT WADALA
Police Make Elaborate Plans
for Arrests if Raid
Is Attempted.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, India, May 17.-Four hun
dred civil disobedience volunteers this
evening began their march upon the
salt works of Wadala.
The procession started from Congress
House.
Pandit Mukund Malaviya, son Of
Pandit MADAM Mohun Malaviya, led
the volunteers.
The procession marched past one of
the largest concentrations of armed po-
lice mustered since the beginning OF
Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of civil
resistance.
Six hundred officers, 100 of them
with firearms, were stationed at Jacob
Circle and elsewhere on the route to
the salt depot seven miles from Bonn
bay. Elaborate preparations for arrests
if necessary to thwart an actual raid
included preparation Of quarters in the
development department buildings Of
Worli, around which Is barbed wire
barrier through which electric current
can be circulated.
MOslems Causing Anxiety.
Growing unrest among the Moham-
medan population of India Is being
viewed with concern in European circles
Coupled with progress of the Hindu
civil diSobedience campaign, the situa-
| ton provided particularly disquieting
outlook.
Moslems, who for weeks have alb
| stained from participation in the civil
| disobedience campaign, now appear to
| be drawing near the Nationalist leaders
through agitation Of cause entirely
exterior to India itself-treatment Of
Moslems in Palestine.
Moslem quarters here observed a
hartal, or day of protest, Friday In
sympathy with the Arabs of Palestine
Although nominally confined to Moslem
shopkeepers number Of Hindus closed
their shops also.
Huge Parade Staged.
Moslems celebrated Palestine day"
and passed resolutions warning the
British that if Moslem claims in Pales-
tine were not satisfied the Mohamme-
dams would take steps to compel rec
ignition.
The Moslems staged huge parade,
carrying banners inscribed Down With
the Balfour Declaration" and other pro-
| Arab notices.
Mohamed Ali, Moslem leader, an
nounced that he had applied to the
Bombay government for permission to
see Mahatma Gandhi, Nationalist lead
err, in his prison at Yeroda, and consult
him as to measures of bringing about
| peace in India He said he also had
discussed the situation with the VICE
| row Lord Irwin
| Secret trials are being held for those
| arrested at Sholapur in connection with
recent rioting there and several severe
sentences are said to have been passed.
Volunteers Intercepted.
| Marching down to the docks today to
take a steamer for raid on the
| Shiroda salt depot, 100 Nationalist vol
unteers were intercepted by police who
arrested the leaders. They were later
| released, all embarking on the steamer,
! which sailed with an additional II vol
unteers from the suburb of Villeparle.
| Police made elaborate preparations to
| thwart a raid planned for Sunday by
| Nationalist volunteers on the salt de-
! pot at Wadala, a suburb seven miles
from Bombay.
A strong police force has been posted
| at the depot, and another detachment
has been stationed at Dadar, q short
distance away. A third detachment has
been sent to Jacob Circle, on the route
the raiders plan to take to the depot.