MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 8506, 4 May 1891, Page 2

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

RIOTING IN FRANCE. [By Eleotbio Telegbaph.—Oopybigm.] [Pkb Press Association.] PARIS, May 2. The celebration of May Day passed off quietly, with the exception of some Anarchist disorders. An attempt was made to wreck the mansion of the Marquis Trevise, a noted humanitarian, by dynamite, but without sucoess. Forty thousand troops were garrisoned in the oity to preserve order. Mr Cunningham Graham, a member of the English House of Commons, was conspicuous amongst the Anarchists, 150 of whom were arrested. In a conflict between the rioters and soldiers at Fourmies one of the latter was killed. j

At Lyons the Anarchists displayed an attitude of hostility and cut 100 telephone cables. The officers commanding the military threatened to employ cannon in dispersing the mob, and the cavalry made repeated charges. Many of the rioters were taken into custody. At Clichy the Anarchists fired upon the gendarmes, wounding several. Many of the leading Anarchists were arrested, From Marseilles reports are received that the Anarohists have been turbulent there. ROME, May 2.

Three hundred Anarchists made an attack on the military in the city yesterday with revolvers and stones, and during the riot fourteen persons were injured, including Deputy Cypriani. At Florence a disturbance also took place, and the cavalry charged the mob. LONDON, May 2. Reports from Berlin, Vienna, and Brussels state that the celebrations of May Day passed over quietly in those cities.