RIOTOUS STUDENTS
DEMONSTRATION AT RECTORIAL ELECTION. (Received Oct, 25. 5.5 p.m,) LONDON, Oct. 23. There was a wild fight among Glasgow University students when about a hundred supporters of the Conservative and Labor candidates at the Rectorial election allied themselves aud tried to eject the from. s> meeting. - Alany liand-to-liand encounters followed. Some took off their boots and flung them at their opponents, ami l the din of exploding fireworks. Chairs and other furniture were smashed. One student was carried out unconscious.—A. aud N.Z. Cable Assn.
MR CHA AIDER LAIN ELECTED LORD RECTOR, STL DENTS’ ' ‘ AACHEN ITION. ’ ’ (Received Oct. 26. 12.3 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2-5. Air Austen Chamberlain was elected'Lord Rector of Glasgow University with 1242 votes. Air. Chesterton (Liberal) polled 968 ‘ votes and Air. Sidney Webb (Labor) -So. It "took a special e.causing stair the whole week-end to clear toe approaches to the Lnivc.sty. Heaps of garbage and all sorts or missiles had been secretly actumulqted in depots in the city and com eyed to the- University grounds, it is estimated 20,000 unfit eggs, several tons of peasmeal, 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. Reuter. _______
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10138, 26 October 1925, Page 5
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