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...Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed...
...Viceroy's next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became...
...John Ernest Buttery Hotson, acting Governor of Bombay Presidency, was inspecting Fergusson College at Poona when a student, one Gokhale, rushed up and fired a pistol point-blank at him. The bullet struck the metal stud of a wallet just above Sir John's heart. Sir John rushed the student, overpowered him, had him arrested, went...
...India. Poona, where St. Gandhi was incarcerated from May until February (TIME, May 12, Feb. 9), is a city of 200,000. In Summer it is filled with vacationing Bombayans...
Recently United Eastern Agencies, Ltd. acquired the managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...