JAPAN: STUDENTS BATTLE WITH POLICE OUTSIDE U.S. HOSPITAL CAMP.

Record ID: 347257

  • Title: JAPAN: STUDENTS BATTLE WITH POLICE OUTSIDE U.S. HOSPITAL CAMP.
  • Date: 17th April 1968
  • Summary: SIGN; STUDENTS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL CAMP; RIOT POLICE ARRIVE; POLICE AND STUDENTS CLASH; STUDENTS HURL STONES; STUDENTS RUN FROM POLICE; STUDENT ATTACKS LINE OF POLICE; STUDENTS HURL STONES AT HOSPITAL ENTRANCE. Initials GHB/VS/BOB/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd May 1968 13:00
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVABCQ55KKSYZ5QAE6N72PC1HCTP
  • Story Text: ABOUT 1,000 JAPANESE STUDENTS ARMED WITH STONES AND STAVES FOUGHT 5,000 RIOT POLICE NEAR TOKYO ON MONDAY (15 APRIL) IN RENEWED DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNITED STATES ARMY HOSPITAL TO TREAT VIETNAM WAR WOUNDED.

    THE STUDENTS, MAINLY MEMBERS OF THE ZENGAKUREN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION, HAD APPLIED FOR PERMISSION TO HOLD THE DEMONSTRATION, BUT THIS HAD BEEN REFUSED.

    THE POLICE, PROTECTED BY NYLON ANTI-STONE NETS AND SHIELDS, HIT BACK WITH WATER CANNONS AND BATONS. AFTER THE FOUR-HOUR BATTLE, IN WHICH 38 STUDENTS WERE ARRESTED AND 47 PEOPLE INJURED, THE AREA WAS LITTERED WITH ROCKS AND CLUBS.

    THE DEMONSTRATORS WERE FINALLY DRIVEN BACK BY LINES OF RIOT POLICE. THE DISTURBANCE TOOK PLACE OUTSIDE THE 400-BED OJI HOSPITAL CAMP, JUST NORTH OF TOKYO.
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