TROUBLE IN VENEZUELA
STUDENTS’ DEMONSTRATIONS. TWENTY PEOPLE KILLED. (Frees Assentation—By Telocraph—Cop—ight.) NEW YORK, March 9. Venezuela -was shaken bv a in which £0 people wore killed, including six policemen, who were reported to be lynched by unruly students. The newspaper El Universal has been temporarily suppressed. The trouble started when a parade of 400 students marched along, sheuting, “Down with the/ tyrant., Gomez,’’ The President’s, brother. EustScino Gomez, seized control of the army and the police and dispersed the meetings with machine guns. The French Minister, who attempted to mediate, was ordered to leave the country. The chief complaint at the students’ meeting was acainst the United States’ aggression in Nicaragua and the denouncement of New York syndicates’ exploitation of the Maracaibos oil resources.— Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20355, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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