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Catching sight of a policeman in the crowd?the same policeman who arrested him for making salt at Dandi year ago (TIME, April 14)?Satyagrahi Gandhi called out: "You know I am on my way to make salt again?and will you arrest me once again...
...year after his original march (the gesture that made him a world figure) St. Gandhi was plodding along again, greeted at village after village with transports of devotion, marching on to make salt again at Dandi...
...Mahatma is not a "local resident" of Dandi. He is out to break the salt law publicly a second time. The first time he did not get away with it. This time he probably will...
Violence. In Calcutta, several days before St. Gandhi reached Dandi, a disturbance occurred when carters blocked the great Howrah Bridge at rush hour by removing the wheels of their carts. Police said that stones were thrown at them. They replied with bullets. Six men were killed, 60 wounded, but the disturbance then quieted. On the day of the salt-making, followers of Mr. Gandhi squatted down in front of a train near Bombay, but were beaten off by police...
While Mr. Gandhi sat waiting for the water to evaporate, 319,000,000 Indians were comparatively peaceful. No riots, bloodshed or violence of any sort had marked his march on foot 165 miles from Ahmadabad to the sea at Dandi in 25 days (TIME, March 24 et seq.). He had broken the law against seditious utterance at every village on the march. He had obtained the resignation of dozens of village officials, the pledge of hundreds of villagers to join in his movement of Mass Civil Disobedience...