Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-25
|GANDH!, HOPE GONE,
TO LEAVE FOR INDIA
Announces Failure of Confer
ence and Plans to Resume
Non-VioTence Campaign.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 25.-Mahatma
Gandhi made clean break with the
British government today and an
nounced that since the round-table
conference had come to nothing he
must go back to India and start his
campaign of "non-yiolent non-co-
operation" all over again.
notwithstanding the laudible eff
forts Of some delegates to pump life
into this corpse which we call q
round-table conference" he said, 81
fear I must abandon whatever slender
hope 4 ever had Of obtaining full
responsible self-government.
Since 1t is clearly the intention OF
the British government not to grant
the things we have asked, must aban-
don cooperation with the government
and start again the campaign of nom
violent non Incorporation"
Nothing but terrible repression" in
India can come out of the conference,
he said, but repression never has
harmed a nation sailing toward its
goal with fixed determination"
Must Invite New Suffering.
"A reign Of terror by the govern
ment cannot kill the desire of millions
Of Indians for their independence" said
Gandhi I'VE teach our children to
dance with Joy when bullets fly around
them. We teach them to suffer patient
ly for freedom. And now I must go
back to India and invite the nation
to new course Of suffering"
Sir Samuel Hoare, secretary of state
fOP ruyop hn al o;v,e
drifting into an atmosphere of melo-
dramatic tragedy and comedy" and
asserted that the government had no
intention Of abandoning its original
pledges to India, while admitting that
the situation now Is more difficult than
at the last round table conference.
The government, he said, would ad-
here to the policy of conference ard
consultation and would form Ilate its
final policy only after obtaining the
views Of all the Indian delegates.
Srinivasa Sastri, Indian delegate,
warned the government in telling
speech that any departure from its orig
inal pledge to give India the fullest ma
tional economy with responsibility at
the center would prove profoundly dis
appointing to India and might lead to
serious results
Information received here today from
India said that igitation has begun there
for q campaign of violence following
indication that the Round Table Con-
ference here will probably end this
week without settlement satisfactory
to the Nationalist.
The situation In Bengal is said to
be especially critical and the Marquis
Of Lothian, undersecretary Of state for
India, declared in the House of Lords
That In some Bengal districts every
British of1cer Is doing his duty in
deadly terror of his life" The men,
ace OF bomb throwers, it is reported,
mas recently become so great that Vice
roy Lord Wilmington now travels In
airplanes instead of by train.
Drastic Action Urged.
Drastic action must be taken to end
this menace to liberty and social peace"
the marquis warned the lords in grave
tones. 'ReSolute suppression Of terror
ism is imperatively necessary. 1t is
the governments duty to protect the
lives of its own servants and others
and 1t is no less its duty to prevent
body of men from DETECTING the course
OF political progress by bringing, not
reason and argument, but terrorism and
assassination to bear. The situation
Is one of extreme gravity"
Coincident with the undersecretary's
warning, IA Indian delegates to the con-
ference issued statement saying that
the mere grant of provincial autonomy
to India would not be accepted.
1T would only give rise" they said,
Ito situation of great instability and
perplexity which should be avoided in
the interest both of England and India.
If such step Is taken the government
must bear full and sole responsibility.