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Near Peshawar, key city of the Khyber Pass, gateway to northern India, a patrol of the 17th Poona horse (Indian) rode last week through the sun-speckled fruit orchards. From somewhere rifles cracked. Six troopers dropped from their saddles. The rest wheeled, galloped back to barracks. British officers wasted no time, for they knew what the shots in the orchard meant. In five minutes bugles were blowing, cavalry, artillery were mounting, galloping out of town. At Peshawar's air station, 54 Royal Air Force pilots climbed into their planes, roared up into the blue...
...Selfish Government." Aside from the fact that Bombay police bruised and bashed some 500 non-violent Gandhites, the week in India was unexciting. Approached in his jail near Poona by an emissary of James Ramsay MacDonald with terms of compromise, St. Gandhi cocked his bird-like head and listened. Rejecting the terms (secret) he denounced "the selfishness of the British Government," demanded as the first and minimum price of peace complete self-rule for India...
...decree making "picketing" a crime punishable by six-month imprisonment (TIME, June 9) was being flagrantly disobeyed. Weeks ago the Bombay police, engulfed by hundreds of thousands of Gandhites and under orders not to fire, became virtually helpless. Soldiers would now be tried. Marching out of their barracks at Poona-near which St. Gandhi remained imprisoned-a battalion 1,000 strong, half British, half native, entrained last week for Bombay with all the paraphernalia of war: rifles, machine guns, armored cars...
...these ominous 24 hours were not marked by any violent atrocity, residents in the British Isles breathed easier, but Britons on the spot continued acutely anxious as tens of thousands of natives in small white "Gandhi caps" paraded through Bombay, thousands through such cities as Calcutta and Madras. At Poona paraders carried a likeness of George V festooned with old shoes. From the Afghan frontier came news that shrewd Afghan traders were refusing Indian coins stamped with the Emperor's head, saying "George's head is like Amanullah's* now-no good...
...loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock to the forests to feed, thus breaking the grazing tax; 5) at Manhattan, the Bishop of Bombay (Methodist Episcopal) warned thus: "Americans seem to have an idea that all India is out for independence. . . . The Independent...