UNRULY STUDENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19438, 26 October 1925, Page 7

UNRULY STUDENTS

WILD FIGHT AT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. POLITICAL FACTIONS RUN RIOT. Received Oct. 25, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 23. There was a wild fight among Glasgow University students when about a hundred supporters of Conservative and Labour candidates at the Rectorial election allied themselves and tried to eject the Liberals from the meeting. Mfcny hand-to-hand encounters followed. Some took off their boots and flung them at opponents. Amid a din of exploding fireworks, chairs and other furniture were smashed. Ono i student was carried out unconscious..

THE NEW LORD RECTOR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN ELECTED Received Oct. 25, 11.45 p.m. (Reuter) LONDON, Oct. 25. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was elected [Lord Rector of Glasgow University 'with 1242 votes. Mr. Chesterton (Liberal) polled 968 and Mr. Sidney Webb I (Labour) 285. HUGE COLLECTION OF AMMUNITION. 20,000 UNFIT EGGS INCLUDED Received Oct. 25, 11.45 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 25. It took a special cleansing staff &. whole week-end to clear tho approaches to the university. Heaps of garbage and all sorts of missiles had been secretly accumulated in depots in the ! city and conveyed to the university ! grounds. It is estimated that 20,000 I unlit eggs, several tons of peasemeal [flour, soot, ochre, bad herrings and I eod heads were utilised in horseplay. A number of students were injured. One was badly crushed and taken to , hospital.