MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1925, Page 9

MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

REMARKABLE PRECAUTIONS. SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS. HINDENBURG ASSAILED. (Ky Cable.—Press Associutiun.— Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON", May 1. : Messages from the Continent report that May Day was generally observed :in the qitictCHt fashion. The French authorities look most ' remarkable precautions in I'siris, including countless police patrols, also spotting aeroplanes, but fears .if disorders : , arising from its recent discovery of . very violent Communist documents were settled by snow, sleet and hail keeping ; workers indoors. , j The "Daily Herald's" Berlin correspondent says there was a general eessa- ,! tion of work and countless processions. i .Speakers all over the country assailed 1 Iliiidcnhurg's election as the high-water ; mark of the reactionary tide, but Socialists at Berlin devoted most of th? ; time to bitter attacks on the Com- ■ munist party, the Communists return- ! ing the compliment. blaming the i Social Democrats for the. triumph of j reaction. — (A. and X.Z. Cable., MAY DAY IN JAPAN. NO FATALITIES REPORTED. (Heeelveil 1 p.m.] 1 , TOKYO, May 1. During the May Day demonstration in ' Osaka, MO.OOO workers, including Koreans, paraded the streets under the close vigilance of the police, hut the demonstration ended without any serious , ! clash.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.) CESSATION FROM WORK. (KrrvlvcO !».!W n.m.l j HAVANA, May 1. i Drivers of street cars, buses, taxi cabs, j and other employees of public services . I remained away from their posts on May ! Day. Workers held a meeting and a ! parade.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) PROMINENT MEN GUARDED. j I Received SI.IIO n.ni.i I NEW YORK, May I. , i The police guarded all public buildings I and the homes of noted men and public. , jolUeiiils. l A. and X.Z. Cable.) POLICE TAKE A HAND. |i NEW YORK, May 1. I Ten meetings of Communists have been ,'broken up by the police- A squad of I , ."id officers drove members into the street , and confiscated a quantity of May Day I literature. — (A. nnd N.Z.*Cable.)