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by about .00Q, admirers. When he was informed by his
Staff ti:itt the "appointed time" had come for beginning civil - disobedience, he stooped down, as the special of the Times tells us, scooped up a handful' of 'Sand and salt water and returned to his bungalow broad simile on his face. He had technically "Rolleete&" salt, and therefore had broken the law. - It -seems that such salt as is to be obtained by letting the brine of the sea shore and the creeks dry in. the Sun is uneatable and has no market value. Never- thdess, Mr. Gandhi sold his pinch of salt by auction for £82. One wonders whether in this battle of wits it would not be safe for the Government to go so far as to issue a licence to Mr. Gandhi to collect his uneatable and (ordinarily) unsaleable salt !
