An attempt to lynch a Jewish girl student, a Miss Levy, was made today during a sudden violent anti-alien demonstration which flared in the medical faculty of the University of Paris here. The girl was rescued by police only after a hard struggle with the infuriated students.
The demonstration started when Wrench Royalist students posted a list of alien doctors at the university entrance. The students demanded that no foreign citizen be permitted to practice medicine in France even though he is a graduate of a French university. They also demanded that foreign students be not naturalized in France.
BOTTLE IS HURLED
Somebody hurled a bottle at the demonstrators. This was sufficient to excite the students to such a degree that they called for a lynching. They rushed to Miss Levy who allegedly was the one who threw the bottle. Feelings ran so high that the girl would have been lynched if not for the immediate arrival of the police.
The movement to prohibit alien doctors to practice medicine in France has been going on for the last few months and has resulted in several clashes in the universities in different cities. Never, however, have the clashes assumed such a violent character as today.
Leaders of the anti-alien movement claim that French-born doctors find it difficult to make a living because of the increase in the number of foreign-born doctors who, after completing their course in French universities, remain in the country to practice their profession.
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