RIOTOUS STUDENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 102, 31 March 1925, Page 5

RIOTOUS STUDENTS.

OBJECTIONS'TO AN APPOINTMENT PARIS, March 29. The appointment of Professor Georges Scelle, principal secretary to the Minister of Justice and an ardent Socialist, to the chair of International Law at Paris University led to fierce encounters between Students in the Latin quarter, attended by a long casualty list. Royalist students, reinforced by other anti-government students, resented tho nomination as an act qf political favouritism. They took possession of the lecture room with tho object of preventing the professor from delivering his first lecture. They also erected barricades and later they came into collision with a body of youthful Radicals, Socialists and other government supporters outside the Sorbonue. The police intervened during tho course of hostilities, in which a body of Communists joined as free-lances. Tho students scattered, but reformed a quarter of a mile away in tho Place St. Michael, where they re-engaged. Then the police were reinforced and the students dispersed leaving twenty wounded and thirty-three prisoners. Fifty-four gendarmes were wounded, some seriously. One was taken to hosptal with a fractured arm. Thoro were thirty-six arrests, but only seventeen wero detained. —A. and N.Z. cable.