TRAFFIC STOPPED
Students Protest
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright)
CANBERRA, May 25 Sixteen students were dragged away by police in Canberra today when they staged a lunch-time sit-down demonstration in the city’s main shopping centre.
Several hundred students, many of them visitors to Canberra for the Australian Students’ Labour Federation meeting, crowded through the shopping area to protest against Australian intervention in Vietnam.
They brought traffic to a standstill by crossiing roads slowly and eventually about 40 of them sat down holding up banners bearing slogans such as “No War In Vietnam.” The demonstrators sat for about 15 minutes, cheered on by scores of students lining the nearby footpaths. Then the police arrived and dragged 15 boys and a girl into waiting squad cars.
The demonstration broke up and the 16 “squatters” were charged with obstructing traffic.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 17
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135TRAFFIC STOPPED Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30760, 26 May 1965, Page 17
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