Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-12
GANDH| SUCCESSOR
SEIZED BY BRITISH;
H|NDUS RAID DEPOT
More Than 100 Arrested as
Natives Are Caught in
Act at Shiroda.
BY the Associated Press.

BOMBAY, India, May 12.-Mahatma
day received its second great setback
with the arrest of Abbas Tyabji and q
large group of his immediate followers
at the moment when they were starting
from Navsari to raid the Dharsana salt
works.
The governments abortive action
followed Tyabji's refusal to call of the
proposed raid after repeated warnings
by government officials.
The first great raid on o salt depot
by Gandhi's followers occurred today
at Shiroda. Police swooped down on
the Hindu raiders, caught them in the
act and arrested about 100. The news
Of the wholesale arrests was COM
municated to Bombay by the Maharastra
Satyagraha Civil disobedience) COM
mittee.
Large Quantities Removed.
Two groups of volunteers had worked
half an hour unmolested when the police
arrived.
One hundred and nifty were seized; Of
the whole body about 20 leaders were
detained in custody, the remainder being
released.
Meanwhile another body of volunteers
reached the depot and removed large
quantities of salt. -
The district superintendent Of police
then appeared upon the scene. Police
arrested IS more raiders.
Great crowds of villagers surrounded
the raiding parties, eagerly buying the
misappropriated salt frean the volunteers
as fast as it was collected.
Command Of the forces Of passive
resistance" immediately was taken over
by Mrs. Sajrcnji Naidu, Hindu poeteSs,
selected by the mahatma to automatic
ally succeed as leader.
The seizure of Tyabji conceded with
government plans for q Tightening Of
control of the entire Indian situation.
Troops Sent to Sholapur.
While the arrested leader and his
cohorts were being transferred to the
jail just outside of Navsari, the civil
authorities in Sholapur announced that
two more military attachments had been
sent from Poona, the second battalion
of the Royal Ulster Rifles and q whole
battalion Of headquarters troops, to
complete military control Of that dis
turbed community.
Almost simultaneously the British
ouoLOAt OACo AZ IiIe GuJeTdL QlStT1CL SenC
final notification to the Hail Of
Turangzai. serving notice upon him to
remove with his followers with all speed
from the vicinity Of the recently en-
battled Peshawar.
Before the ultimatum was issued
hand-written posters, purporting to
come from the halls followers, and
headed, "A Message of Hope" were
found posted In mosques and bazaars
Of Peshawar.
They assured the citizens that the
hail possessed large numbers Of ma
chine guns, other arms and airplanes,
and that followers swarmed around him
like locusts.
The posters also stated that an at
tack soon would be made by way Of
citizens that If any delay occurred It
was not to be regarded as surrender.
Peshawar was quiet today, a heavy
rain having caused an appreciable fall
IN the temperature of both the atmos-
phere and the people.
800 Police Halt March.
Three hundred police made the ar
rest of Tyapji and his followers, The
forehead of the 80-year-old successor
to Gandhi, was besmudged with SAT-
IRON, rallying color of midas fight for
independence.
The march to Dharsaana began at
Karadi, just a few miles from Nsvssri.
Before setting out from the Nationalist
encampment there Tyabji and his fol-
lowers sang Gandhis favorite hymn
THE Vaishnav Is He Who Knows the
Calamities of Others"
Mrs. Gandhi, wife Of the imprisoned
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