GENERALLY PEACEFUL
CELEBRATIONS ELSEWHERE
(Received May 2, 1 p.m.) , LONDON, May 1. Paris streets wore a holiday air. A big Labour meeting in the Bois de Vincennes resembled a picnic, contrasting with the militaristic Russian and German celebrations. ; Five - thousand workers downed: tools in Paris, and dockers took a holiday at Havre and Brest. The public services were interrupted. Peaceful demonstrations took place elsewhere in Europe. At Vienna the authorities ensured the substitution. of a peaceful stroll for the customary Socialist parade by training guns on the streets and - blocking the main thoroughfare ' with barbed wire entanglements. Public services at Madrid were paralysed. Banks, offices, and shops were closed, and traffic was suspended, but the day was peaceful. Oxford students inarched the streets shouting, "We won't-flght." Two thousmd unemployed as Glasgow had a conflict with the police and disorganised traffic.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 101, 2 May 1933, Page 7
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