STUDENTS BURN KING’S PORTRAIT.
RIOTOUS SCENES AT BARCELONA UNIVERSITY.
(United Press Assn.—-By Electric Telegraph.—Copvrisrht. >
(Received October 15, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, October 14.
The British United Press correspondent at Barcelona reports that an ugly incident occurred at the university. Four hundred students in the quadrangle, after listening to inflammatory anti-monarchical speeches, broke down the main door and destroyed the furniniture and paintings. carried out Alfonsos portrait in oils and burned it in the street. The police placed a cordon round the area. The rector has closed the university indefinitely.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19201, 15 October 1930, Page 7
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