MAY DAY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 3 May 1930, Page 15

MAY DAY.

LITTLE DISORDER IN EUROPE.

BULL DISLIKES RED FLAGS

(UOTTKD TRESS ASSOCIATION—EI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPTRIGHT.)

(Received May 2nd, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. May Day passed quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in a Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists.

The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the streets singing "Tho Red Flag" and "Internationale." Among the numerous banners and slogans was one borne by Red children, which read "Down with caning in school."

In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and decrying French and British statesmen. To-morrow lias been declared a general holiday to enable tho people to recover from Da y exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members of tho Proletariat Flying Club flew over tho processions, and one machine, by tho irony of Fate, made a forced landing in tho police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made two hundred and twentythree precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured m scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czocho-Slovakia. _ In Vienna the police used their batons on Communists bearing seditious banners, and arrested twenty-five- A bull, infuriated by the sight _I C ' flags, dispersed the procession 'at Wolkowski, Poland, near the Russion border.

MINOR INCIDENTS IN AMERICA. (Received May 2n4, 6-56 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 1. With the exception of Oakland (California), where four parading Communists were seriouely injured by a police charge, May. Day demonstrations in the various cities of the United States wero generally without incident. Reports from Boston state that many children were in the parade there, which was without Qisorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall waa guarded by the police, while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady, while handing out Hc-d literature. and a few arrests wero made in Newark (New Jersey). Sporadic fights, resulting from Communists' demonstrations in various parts of New York City, wore responsible for fifty arrets. None <rf lbe disturbances was of considerable proportions. •