CENOTAPH DESECRATION
INDIGNATION IN SYDNEY NOT APPEASED PUBLIC CONDEMNATION SYDNEY, Thursday. The indignation of returned soldiers caused by the desecration of the Cenotaph by students has not been appeased by the apology nor by the projected prosecution of two of th« o', fenders The ex-soldiers contend that many students witnessed the acts and did not attempt to stop them. Therefore they are as blameworthy as the actual offenders. A senior officer of the Australian Forces says he intends to move at a meeting of the Returned Soldiers' League that it approach the spori - bodies with the object of having ali university teams ostracised by them for six months. A few apologies o\ prosecutions, he says, will not. satisfy the returned soldiers. The blot will take a long time to erase, and every student must be impressed with that fact. Officials of the Returned Soldier*' League state that bloodshed would have occurred at the Cenotaph »f an> returned men had seen the vandals at work. Public condemnation of the occurrence is widespread and the severe punishment. and expulsion of the principal offenders are urged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 9
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183CENOTAPH DESECRATION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 9
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