’VARSITY STUDENTS STRIKE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23323, 5 October 1945, Page 5

’VARSITY STUDENTS STRIKE

Argentine Struggle (10.50 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES. Oct. 4. More than 30,000 students in Argentina’s six national universities have gone on strike, thus taking the lead in the Argentine peoples' struggle to regain their freedom. Completely disregarding the efforts under way to reach a compromise between the Government and the University Councils, the students boldly took matters into their own hands and began a movement which they hope will develop into a vast campaign of civil disobedience, says the correspondent of the “New York Times.” Hundreds of students and professors barricaded themselves in the buildings of the Bvenos Aires Universities.

A large group of policemen to-day besieged the buildings and cut off the light and water supply. (The Associated American Press reports that, the police later were withdrawn in order to avoid possible violence.) Yesterday the engineering building was attacked by a group of armed men who fired about 30 shots at the students inside. Two students were wounded. The engineering building is located directly across the street from the secretariat of Labour, of which Colonel Juan Peron (vice-president) is secretary, therefore most Argentinians have no doubts where the attack originated. The Government instituted a censorship of outgoing Press dispatches relating to the strike, but lifted the ban after a protest by the American Charge d’Affaires.