Evening star., 1942-08-30
Underground Spread
OF Civil Disobedience
Marked in India
Violence Is Suppressed
In Cities but Aqitotors
Are Everywhere
By PRESTON GROVER,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
NEW DELHI, Aug 29-Mohandas
K. Gandhis movement of civil dis
obedience appears to be spreading
underground after three weeks of
surface demonstrations in which dis
order, suppressed in Indiana's big
cities, continued to boil in the vii
lagos.
From underground channels has
been distributed secret set of in
structions to Gandhi's followers to
concentrate their shutdown activi-
ties should see that the climax of
the movement, both in rural and
urban India, is reached four weeks
from now"
A Government communique to-
day reported six Indians killed and
33 injured when officers fired into a
diSorderly crowd around police
station in Patna Province. But such
incidents were not being duplicated
in the cities this weekend.
An indication that authorities
were less concerned about possible
violence in the cities was seen in
the fact Gandhi's son, Devadas,
managing editor of the Hindustan
Times, was freed by a magistrate
who heard charges that the younger
Gandhi had violated defense regu-
lationS.
New Instructions Issued.
New instructions to the passive
resistance leaders emphasized that
the all-India Congress party wanted
no disorders.
None of our activities should be
such as to endanger human life,
whether Indian or British" it was
stated by pamphlets which were be-
ing circulated quietly.
1--WE will die, great leader, but
we will also do. We will free
Gandhi before he fasts. Long live
free India
AS the movement ended its
fourth week, increasing numbers
of Gandhis followers were in Jail
and the authorities were following
a policy of keeping his name out
of the public press under the theory
"out of print out of mind"
Many British believed stern sup
preston methods had the congress
party "on the rum" but numbers
of Indians, including some of the
highest-ranking industrialists and
many Americans long resident in
the country, considered that the
movement had just begun and that
its most serious effects were likely
to show up in the next few weeks.
Editorial Comment Free.
Agitators seem always to be about.
was walking along Bombay
street when an Indian in the con-
gress cap and white cotton home
spun walked alongside until sure
he had correctly read United States
Correspondent" on my shoulder tab
and then quietly slipped the printed
copy of propaganda sheet into my
hand He slipped away into the
crowd
Generally, Indian papers are per-
mitted to publish only information
appearing in official communiques
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editorial comment is extraordinarily
free.
Barring the presence of large
numbers of uniformed men. India
in most respects appeared to be
perfectly normal, peaceable coun-
try.
Stores and hotels were open in
Bombay. The Friday night cabaret
dance at the fashionable, but out
moded Tai Mahal Hotel is so popu-
lar that it is necessary to make
bookings days in advance to attend.
The Poona racing season is one
of the most successful of recent
years.
The numbers game gambling is
immensely popular in Bombay, just
as it is in New Yorks Harlem, with
chauffeurs, porters, peddlers and
laundrymen betting few annas of
their scanty earnings.
The bright spot of the past week
was the unquestioned Indian en-
thusiasm over the American victory
in the Solomon Islands fighting.