STUDENTS’ RAG
ATTACK FIRE STATION FIGHT WITH TOWNSFOLK LONDON, Aug. 9. Students from eight universities in England and Wales, who were encamped at Pwllheli (Wales), training to become officers, marched through the town, forced an entrance to the fire station, and dragged out the engine and apppliances. Police replaced the gear, but tho students, with reinforcements, again attacked the station, and were roughly repulsed ’<y several thousands of indignant townsfolk. Capturing the bandstand, the students sang for an hour, and then marched through the streets, where they were attacked by an angry crowd, which in tho meantime had been augmented by hundreds of sturdy young rural workers. Some of the students were sever-?!--mauled, and were forced to run for their lives. They returned at midnight, armed with sticks, but their omcofrs quietened them and sent them back to camp, singing the Frothblowers’ anthem, “The More We Are Together the Happier We’ll Be.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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152STUDENTS’ RAG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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