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THE PILGRIMS MARCH

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.

I am your friend,
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.

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.

BRAVE MOTHER OF A BRAVE SON

"Enlist in your Hundreds of Thousands"

Mrs. Motilal Nehru's Message

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I rejoice in the great privilege that has been vouchsafed to me of sending my dear husband and my only son to jail. I will not pretend that my heart is entirely free from the wrench of separation from my dear ones. My heart is full of it because love is a trying thing after all. The knowledge that theirs is not a