Drastic Action by. Madrid Police Against, Demonstrators Madrid, Mar, 12.
Serious rioting among the students broke out here to-day with the result that the police were compell= ed to use their fire-arms. One student was shot in the throat and several were injured. Twenty-six arrests were made, An official note states that the riots took the form of a political demonstration and acts of rebellion and the Government was. prepared use rigorous measures to restore order.
The trouble started last week, when the students in Madrid went strike, demanding that the degrees granted by the Roman Catholic universities should not be considered legal, The Government announces thal the student agitation is subsiding ud that the situation is tending to normal again, Mar. 13, The disturbances caused—by students during the past week are closely connected with the quarrel between the Government and. the Antillery Corps at Ciudad Real, which was recently dissolved, AS the cadets implicated in this revolt were disbanded as a punishment, provision has to be made for some 500 youths whose military careers have suddenly come to an end. This has upset the prospective members of the already overerowdprofessions, who have passed examinations far stiffer than the examinations passed by the eadeta which it is feared may be held valid for careers in civil Hfem= Renter Paris, Mar. 13.
The newspapers are receiving telephone messages in regard to the student riots in Madrid.
A body of 2,000 students sorenadthe Ministry of Instruction, yesterday with' satirical—Iyries Against the Minister, atter which the proceeded to the A. B. C, news Paper offices and smashed the Win: dows. Police charged the students with draw: swords and fired thelt revolvers, but the students, une daunted, returned the charge with a volley' of stones, the vote recurred in the evening, Powicestricken crowds sought refuge cafes and shops, the windows of which were shattered {0 smithereens by unruly students. student who was shot yesters the nephew of a former ister, Count Bugatlal, and also of Colonel Marcossi, who was sene fenced to death, but pardoned, connection with' a conspiracy count piracy" in Four hundred students have struck at Bareelona.—Reuter,
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