ELECTING A RECTOR

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 7

ELECTING A RECTOR

MR. CHAMBERLAIN CHOSEN

STUDENTS RICH IN AMMU-

NITION.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—COFYRIOHT,) (r.EUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

LONDON,.2Sth October,

Mr. Austen Chamberlain-was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, with 1242 votes. Mr. Chester- ' ton, . Liberal, polled 9CS, and -Mr. Sidney Webb, Labour, 28.j. It took a special cleansing staff the ■whole week-end to clear the approaches to the university. Heaps of garbage and all-sorts of missiles had been secretly accumulated in .depots in-the city and conveyed to the university grounds. It is anticipated that 20,000 "unfit" eggs, several tons of peasemeal, flour, soot, ochre, bad herrings, and cod heads were utilised in the horse play. A number of students were injured. One was 'badly crushed and taken to hospital. There was a wild fight among the Glasgow University students when about a hundred supporters of tho Conservative mik! .Labour candidates at the Rectorial election, allied themselves, and tried to eject the Liberals from a. meet-: ing.

Many hand-to-hand encounters followed. Homo student took off their boots and flung them at their opponents, amid a, din of exploding jireworks.: Chairs :and other furniture were (Smashed, and one student, was carried out unconscious.