The same mistake that Germany made when she executed Edith Cavell, a British magistrate in Bombay made last week. Outside a Bombay store a small, impertinent child shrilly shouted to purchasers to buy nothing but Indian goods. Brandishing their long lathis, policemen swooped down, arrested the child as a picketer and hauled him off to court where a short tempered magistrate sentenced him to four years imprisonment. The child's name was Krishna Kant. He was nine years old. Snapped the magistrate:
"If you disobey orders in the reformatory you will be whipped."
"I am...
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