SCHOOLBOYS' RAID.
SHREWSBURY INCIDENT. HEADMASTER'S COMMENT. LONDON, July 6. Althoukh Shrewsbury School boys rushed a bridge, raided masters' houses, hung other people'st belongings on trees in the school avenue and decorated the statue of Sir Phillip Sidney, one of the school's most famous sons, with paper, the headmaster, Canon Sawyer, said he considered the affair to be "good-natured and harmless." Canon Sawyer contrasted it with the recent Eton boys' disturbance at Windsor, and pointed out that not a pane of glass had been broken and no damage had been done. After the school had been victorious in the Ladies' Plate at Henley 400 boys rushed the privately-owned toll bridge across the Severn River. The bridgekeeper closed the gates and beat off the boys with a heavy stick. Later, the boys seized a policeman and carried him shoulder-high,, demanding a speech. Last week Eton boyls caused a disturbance at Windsor, and smashed fittings in a train.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 248, 2 August 1932, Page 8
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