SPANISH STUDENTS
NUMEROUS FRESH ARRESTS BUST OF KING ALFONSO DECAPITATED (United Service.) (Rec. June 3, 7.30 p.m.) London, June 2. The - “Daily Guardian’s” Bordeaux correspondent states that there have been numerous fresh arrests of University students at Madrid, following the decapitation of a bronze bust of King Alfonso standing in a university amphitheatre. The demonstrators painted the remainder of the bust in blood red and intended to make the head into a plaque for presentation to Comrade Sbefg, president of the Federation of Students, at present imprisoned, but later flung the head into a water main. The police adopted an extraordinary means of interrogation, resulting in one of the arrested students inculpating many of his companions.
General De Rivera declares that it is his intention to court-martial the students on a charge of lese majeste.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 11
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