ARREST ORDERED
BUENOS AIRES POLICEMAN STUDENT^DISORDERS (J 0 a.m.) NEW YORK. July 1 Judge Alfredo Mendez accused the police of being responsible for firms on innocent people in the city’s mail thoroughfare. Avanida de Mayo, las month when the police were takin. precautions against demonstration: marking Berlin’s fall, says the New, York Flerald-Tribune’s corresponded' in Buenos Aires. One civilian wai killed and several injured. The judgt ordered the arrest of the police office: in charge of the riot squad. The police alleged that on May 3 the Communists attempted to stage dis orders and two men fired on then from a taxi. The judge rejected the police claim.
A number of university student: and secondary students were injurec on the night of June 28 when the police broke up a demonstration b\ 500 students in front of the Congress building. Eighteen were arrested. A. demonstration was called the same day and all universities closec throughout the nation as a protest against the present regime and de mand for the return of constilutiona Government. Students in Cordoba tied handkerchiefs across thei mouths symbolising the gagging oi public liberty and free expression Students at La Plata, of whom a number were arrested, marched oi. the gaol demanding the release o other students who had been pre viously arrested. The police mounted on motor-cycles, used tea: gas to disperse the demonstrators Ordinary police units were also usee to break up .Buenos AireS and hi. Plata demonstrations.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21754, 2 July 1945, Page 6
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