OBJECTIONS TO FILM
VARSITY STUDENTS HAVE CLASH WIH POLICE MAN KNOKED INTO RIVER Cambridge, Nov. 81. •A disturbance, in which' hundreds of undergraduates were involved, outside the Tivoli C'inema here, led to a clash between the "No More War" section and Fascists and others. Scores of names were taken by the proctors. The trouble was over the showing of the film, "Our Fighting Navy," to
which, apparently, some dbjection had been taken by many of the undergraduates, who believed it to he ia war picture. For more than an hour there was prolonged hooing and hissing. To prevent the pacifist protest 500 undergraduates had niarched to the cinema hehind a band of ex-service-men playing wartime ,airs and carrying Union Jacks. They tried to enter, but were prevented by 15 policemen, who had to draw their truncheons. An undergraduate who tried to enter at the back was knocked into the Cam.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 3
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150OBJECTIONS TO FILM Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 3
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