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Ahmedabad, Dec. 23.

Writing in "Young India" Mahatma Gandhi says that, if Lord Reading was trying legitimately to suppress popular lawlessness he must study and regulate the development of his campaign which he would not even allow to be called repression.

His subordinates being interested parties had gone out of hand. He must forthwith resign or at least publicly disown and condemn illegalities and assaults and not attempt to excuse them on the flimsy plea of trying times. A Round-table conference was bound to prove abortive till Lord Reading was disabused of the idea that Non-co-operation was confined to a few misguided zealots.

If he wanted co-operation and contentment he must placate Non-co-operation.

An appeal of Mrs. C. R. Das, says Mahatma Gandhi has given this massage to Bengal about hartal: The honour of leaders requires the