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M. K. Gandhi

completely fulfilled in other parts of the empire. He should like to take the opportunity to thank Mr. Gandhi for the help he had rendered to the Ambulance movement, and to testify to the really excellent work which Indians were doing in connection with it. (Hear Hear). It might be that in leaving England Mr. Gandhi felt to some extent disappointed of the hope of giving that help which he had so willingly afforded in South Africa; but the prospect lay before him of more good work in India (Hear, Hear).

Mrs. OLIVE SCHREINER

Mrs. Olive Schreiner expressed the great admiration which she felt for Mr. Gandhi. She looks upon him not only as the most able and self-sacrificing of leaders but also one of the teachers of the age who had given a high moral example to the world, and had striven for political justice and freedom, not by blood and violence but by the might force of passive resistance to what he believed to be Justice.

Mr. GANDHI'S REPLY

Mr. Gandhi, who was received with cheers, said that his wife and himself were returning to the motherland with their work unaccomplished and with broken health, but he wished nevertheless, to use the language of hope. When the Ambulance corps was

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