COMMUNISTS PELTED
PROCESSION AT OXFORD UNDERGRADS’ ATTACK LONDON. May 1. Oxford undergraduates to-day pelted 100 Communists who were holding a May Day procession in the city. The attackers used rotten tomatoes, oranges and eggs. The sniping lasted while the Communists crossed Magdalen bridge and marched along High street. Other undergraduates at college windows threw an assortment of objects ’which the Communists hurled back. Free fights occurred along the route, forcing the police to make several arrests. When the procession reached St. Giles’, the Communists attempted to sing the “Internationale” but undergraduates, reinforced by townspeople, overwhelmed their voices with “Rule Brittania,’’- whereupon the Communists abandoned their meeting. Bristol students abandoned an antiwar demonstration after a police I warning. They then held a demonstration of protest against the police action. A woman carrying a sandwich-board criticising the Government was attacked by other women at Southend. She was knocked down and had her board broken up and was rescued by the police.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20242, 9 May 1940, Page 8
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