PANDIT JAWAHARLAL TO HIS COLLEAGUES.
To my Colleagues of the U. P. Congress Committee:—Some days ago, you did me the high honour of appointing me General Secretary of the Committee. I have not been able to serve you in that capacity for long. To-day, a higher honour and a greater service await me; and I welcome them with the conviction that you will carry on the work of the Committee more vigorously and successfully than my co-secretaries and myself were able to do. It has pleased Providence to give this Province a chance of leading the fight for Liberty. May you, the representatives of the people, prove worthy of this high trust. The work of the Provincial Committee must on no account suffer. Workers from the districts must come to the headquarters and keep the flag flying at the citadel. I trust that there will be a full attendance of members at the General meeting on the 13th in Allahabad.
Theirs will be a great responsibility. May God guide their deliberations and give them strength and wisdom. One thing I would have you remember. There can be no compromise or parleying. This struggle must and can only end in complete victory for the people. Any weakening, any giving up of the principles, will be a betrayal of the thousands who have given of their best for the cause. "An revoir." We meet again, I hope, as free men.
PANDIT JAWAHARLAL TO THE
CITIZENS OF ALLAHABAD
Friends,
I go to jail with the greatest pleasure and with the fullest conviction that therein lies the achievement of our goal. Forget not that there is a complete hartal on the 12th inst. and that it is the, duty of every man to enlist as a volunteer. The most important thing is to preserve complete peace and an atmosphere of non-violence. In your hands is the honour of Allahabad and I hope it is quite safe therein. I trust you will always be in the firing line in the battle of Swaraj and make the name of our city immortal in our annals.
PANDIT MOHANLAL
"CHOKE UP THE JAILS."
In a short Urdu message to the citizens of Allahabad the Pandit says:—
I go to jail with the greatest pleasure. The only answer to repression is to choke up the jails. It is your duty to make the hartal of the 12th an unprecedented success. Fail not. No gari should be plying on hire; no shop should be open.