AGAINST NAZISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 5

AGAINST NAZISM

MORE STUDENT PROTESTS IN POLAND i DEMONSTRATIONS ALL OVER COUNTRY. SOME CLASHES WITH POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. WARSAW, February 25. Students all over the country renewed the demonstrations today, denouncing the recent anti-Polish scenes in Danzig. After the meetings they marched to the German consulates which were heavily guarded. The marchers clashed with the police at Cracow and Lwow. Several were injured and a number arrested. The police dispersed 5000 demonstrators who were attempting to attack the German consulate in Poznan, where a mass meeting of students demanded the expulsion of Germans from the university.

REPRISALS THREAT MARCH OF TEN THOUSAND STUDENTS. BAN ON GERMANS URGED. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) WARSAW, February 26. Over 10,000 students milled through the streets this afternoon shouting "Down with Germany! Danzig must be Polish!” Strong forces of police prevented an approach to the German Embassy. Twenty thousand students first met in the University courtyard and passed a resolution banning German students from Polish universities for one day, as a reprisal for the anti-Polish activities of eGrman students in Danzig. Such action hitherto has been reserved for Jews. Colonel Jan Tomaszewski, Commander of the Academic Legion, urged a meeting to break off social relations with German students.