​take up the struggle for liberty. Now or never is our last word. This noble struggle will lead us either to victory or to death. Both are glorious. It must be life or death, not this slavery any more. We beseech the policemen to resign their posts at once. Let them realize that death by starvation is preferable to doing this dirty work.

My message to the students of Bengal:— Come out, enlist in thousands as volunteers, Swaraj is within sight. I wish your life may be hallowed by taking part in this righteous fight for your great Motherland's freedom.

To my comrades and countrymen:

Having served you to the best of my ability while working amongst you, it is now my high privilege to serve the Motherland by going to jail with my only son. What shall I say of him to you, who know him so well? 1 am fully ​confident that we shall meet again at no distant date as free men. I have only one parting word to say. Continue non-violent non-co-operation without a break until Swaraj is attained, and enlist as volunteers in your tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. Let the march of pilgrims to the only Temple of Liberty now existing in India . which has escaped sacrilege at the hands of the bureaucracy, viz. the jail, be kept up in an uninterrupted stream, swelling in strength and volume as each day passes. Adieu!

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.

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