SPANISH STUDENTS
BUST OF KING DISFIGURED. COURT-MARTIAL THREATENED. (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) London, June 2. The Bordeaux correspondent of the Daily Guardian states that there have been numerous fresh arrests of university students at. Madrid following the decapitation of a bronze bust of King Alfonso standing in the university amphitheatre. The demonstrators painted the remainder of the bust in blood red, and intended Io make the head into a plaque for presentation to the president. The students are at present imprisoned. The head was flung into a water main. The police adopted extraordinary means of interrogation, resulting in one of the arrested students inculpating many of his companions. General Primo de Rivera declares that it is his intention to court-martial the students on a charge of lese-majeste.—United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20791, 4 June 1929, Page 7
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