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Show STUDENTS SET UPON BY POLICE- Lima, .'Peru, Sept. 15. More than 20 students- of the University here are under the care of surgeons today with serious wounds resulting from an encounter with' the .police lato yesterday. Much indignation Is 'expressed 'ex-pressed over the action of the police, and a motion directing a note of cen sure Is beforo tho chamber of deputies dep-uties v" ' The encounter between the students and the ollce came while a large delegation from the university was on Its way to the office of the home minister, where they planned to pro-test pro-test the arrest earlier in the week uf one of their comrales The latter hud been lodged. In Jail on acount of an article which he wrote In favor fa-vor of granting amnesty to certain political prisoners who wore Involved In disturbances last May. While the parading students were passing a police station, a file of gen-d'armes gen-d'armes charged them with drawn sabres. The wounding of twenty odd men was followed by the arrest of a large number of the students. President Leguia agreed with the university men that the police had been over-zealous, and he immediately ordered the prisoners set at liberty. Tho attention of the members of tho chamber of deputies was also called to the affair and they forthwith drew up a motion for a vote of censure. The motion was formally introduced on the calendar yesterday, but no quorum was present and action was not taken. nrv |