STUDENTS FIGHT.
FIERCE ENCOUNTERS. MANY ARRESTS MADE. PARIS, Sunday. The appointment of Professor Georges Scelle, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and an ardent Socialist, to the Chair of International Law at the Paris Uuiversity, led to fierce encounters between students of the Latin Quarter, attended by a long casualty list. Royalist students 3 reinforced by other auti-Governnient students, resented the nomination as an act of political favouritism, and took possession of the lecture room with the object of preventing the professor from delivering his first lecture. They erected barricades. Later they came into collision with a body of youthful -Radicals and Socialists and other Government supporters outside the Sorbonne. The police intervened in the course of hostilities, in which a body of Communists joined in as free lances. The students scattered, but re-formed a quarter of a mile away in the Place St. Michael, where re-engaged in combat. The police were reinforced, and thft students dispersed, leaving 20 wounded and 33 prisoners. According to the latest reports of the rioting, 70 policemen were more or less seriously hurt. —Reuter.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 March 1925, Page 5
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