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  corps at Netley, and Lt. Colonel. R. Baker, I. M. S. (commanding the corps), Mirza Abbas Baig, Mr. and Mrs. Ratan J. Tata, Mr. C. E. Mallet, and Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Warliker.

  Sir. Henry Cotton said that they had met that afternoon to give a cordial send-off to one who had earned by the labours and self-sacrifice over a very long period of years the esteem of every Englishman. It only remained for them to wish Mr. Gandhi a favourable journey to his native land and to congratulate him upon the triumphs he had achieved. Nor did they forget Mrs. Gandhi—hear, hear—who had also suffered in the good cause. Those labours and those sacrifices were over. Mr. Gandhi had practically won the battle he had been fighting and was returning to India to resume as they all hoped, the practice of his profession under happier auspices than it had been his fate to enjoy in South Africa, and to meet the thousands of his countrymen by whom his name would never be forgotten. (Cheers).

 

Mr. J. M. Parikh added a few words on behalf of the Indians in London, both those who were permanent residents there and the young students whose stay was only brief. They had all had the great 