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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 13. 14 June 1972

[Introduction]

Because most of the students involved were shocked and frightened at the time, and some were bleeding as a result of having been assaulted, it is almost impossible to reconstruct a second-by-second account of what happened in St George's Cathedral on Friday afternoon.

It was on the steps of this building that the students were standing when the police charged with batons about 4 pm. About 100 students immediately fled through the north transept into the cathedral.

The Latin inscription on these doors reads: 'I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.'

The doors were closed behind them. Within all was illuminated only by the late afternoon sun filtering through the cathedral's vast stained-glass windows hibh overhead. There were echoes of shouts, and the screams of those still being attacked outside.