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500 NON-CO-OPERATION

names have been mentioned in the statements published by us and their dismissal, on proof of their guilt, (e) Recall of the Viceroy, (f) Refund of fines collected from the peo- ple who were convicied by special tribunals and summary courts, remission of all indemnity imposed on the cities affected and refund thereof where it has already been collected, and the removal of punitive police.

It is our deliberate opinion that Sir Michael O'Dwyer, General D)er, Colonel Johnson, Colonel O'Brien, Mr. Bosworth Smith, Sri Ram Sud and Malik Sahib Khan have been guilty of such illegalities that they deserve to be- impeached, but we purposely refrain from advising any such course, because we believe India can only gain by waiving this right. Future purity will be sufficiently guaran- teed by the dismissal of the officials concerned.

We believe Colonel Macrae and Captain Doveton have failed equally with Colonel O'Brien and others to carry out their trust, but we have purposely refrained from advising any public action against them, as, unlike others mentioned by us, these two officers were inexperienced and their brutality was not so studied and calculated as that of experienced officers.

��THE PUNJAB, DISORDER: A PERSONAL STATEMENT.

[The Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Punjab Sub-Committee of the Indian National Congress contains a special note on Satyagraha from the pen of Mr. M. K. Gandhi. The Com- missioners discuss how far Satyagraha was responsible for violent excesses in the Punjab. Mr. Gandhi, as the pioneer and the supreme exponent of the movement, here expounds the methods and the fficacy of "The Law oi Love" as the governing law of Hfe, as much

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