PERSECUTION OF JEWS
DISTURBANCES IN VIENNA.
STUDENTS CAUSE TROUBLE
Times. LONDON, Nov. 20. The Vienna correspondent of the Times states that serious anti-Semitic disturbances broke out in the Vienna University, following which the university was ordered to close indefinitely. _
Some months ago a campaign was launched against Jewish students in Vienna, but quietened down. Definite signs of the : trouble redeveloping appeared coincident ally with the Bavarian "Putsch." •■;'»■ ■.■• ~,.,; ■■. „ Last week the rector prohibited all students weiring their corps colours or other insignia in order to check their political ardour. This caused bad blood Two hundred youths, most of them attending technical colleges,, armed thenselves with life preservers, knuckledusters and like instruments, stormed the university and forced a way to the lecture rooms, where they compelled the professors to suspend work and ordered the Jewish students to quit the university. Wherever the demands were complied with the youths declared they we.-e satisfied, but resistance was invariably followed by forcible' ejections, in which many free fights occurred. Similar scenes and disturbances are reported from Gratz.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 9
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