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Mexican Students RESENT LOS ANGELES CLASHES. (Rec. 10.10) MEXICO CITY June 26. Four hundred Mexican National University students demonstrated for two hours in the capital against the United States as a protest against the clashes at Los Angeles against the Zootsuiters there. The students booed Ezequiel Padilla, Mexican Ambassador to Washington. The students began to March to the United States Embassy, but the police barred the approaches. The students also hissed stores witn. American signs. They applauded German signs. They also jeered at Americans. It is stated that Padilla groups who are opposed to the action of Padilla in the matter have played on the feelings of .the students, also that only four hundred of the students out oi fifteen thousand responded. DETROIT ROITS. DETROIT, June 26. The investigation committee has reported that it has found no evidence of any. enemy or other organised influence behind the recent rioting between Whites and Negroes here. ■
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Grey River Argus, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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