MAY DAY OVERSEAS

Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 7

MAY DAY OVERSEAS

RIOT IN MELBOURNE ACTING-PREMIER ASSAULTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 2. (Received May 2, at 10 a.m.) Trades Hall leaders and the Acting Premier (Mr Tunnecliffe) were assaulted in a riot at tho May Day celebration on Yarra bank. Mr Tunnecliffe and the president of the .Trades Hall Council (Mr Riley) were pushed off a lorry and while on the ground savagely assaulted by a number of men. A record crowd witnessed the marches through the city. The Communist Party organised a demonstration in opposition to tiiat of the Trades Hall, and tho two rival processions marched through the streets. PRECAUTIONS IN CANADA POLICE RAIDS ON “ RED ” HEADQUARTERS. MONTREAL, April 29. As a further precaution against the possibility of a Communist May Day outbreak the police raids on the “ Reds’ ” headquarters at Vancouver and Winnipeg extended to Montreal today. Records were seized, but no arrests were made. PROCESSION IN SYDNEY LABOUR FORCES DIVIDED, SYDNEY, May 1. The May Day gathering in Sydney was featureless, except for the fact that Labour’s forces were divided into opposing camps—those who wore red ties, badges, and berets, and those wno did not. The former held a procession, carried flaming red banners, and harangued the crowd ii; one part of the Domain on tho virtues of Social ism. The latter conducted an orthodox meeting in another part, and the on lookers,' about 10,000 all told, filled in their time sauntering between the two gatherings, eager for fireworks, which failed to materialise. The police task was never easier. ALL QUIET IN TOKIO TOKIO, May 1. (Received May 2, at 10 a.m.) May. Day in Tokio passed without incident. Twelve thousand people marched in a procession escorted by 5,000 police. LITTLE TROUBLE IN FRANCE PARIS, May 1. (Received May 2, at .11 a.m.) It was the quietest Labour Day in France for years. Feeble' Communist outbursts and a score of arrests at Bayonne are the only disturbances yet reported in the provinces. Even Paris’s red belt ” was peaceful, except that one man was shot and another bludgeoned. Earthquake shocks provided excitement at Marseilles. COMMUNISTS AND POLICE CLASH IN LONDON LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2, at 12.40 p.m.) May Day celebrations throughout Europe were practically without incident, London providing one of tho few disturbances. A thousand Communists, after speeches in Hyde Park, attempted to reach tho Japanese Embassy to protest against tho Japanese policy regarding Shanghai. They resented the police shepherding tho procession, so attacked them with a volley of stones. The police charged with batons, and hand-to-hand fighting enensued, in which the banner bearers belaboured the police with banner poles. A police inspector was injured in tho face by a broken bottle. Traffic in all directions was stopped for an hour. Thousands of pleasure seekers stampeded when the fighting began, and a heavy rainstorm added to the confusion. Eight arrests were made. ALL WORK STOPPED IN MADRID GREAT MILITARY DISPLAY IN MOSCOW. LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2, at 12.45 p.m.) On May Day in Madrid work ceased everywhere and tho city was paralysed. Cafes, restaurants, shops, theatres, and cinemas closed. Taxis remained in tho garages, tho newspapers were not published, and broadcasting was suspended. The authorities forbade voluntary staffs working and prohibited private motors in tho streets. Tho Communists, while demonstrating, attacked tho mounted police, Hinging five off their horses. Armoured cars suppressed the rioting. Fifty arrests were made.

Communists at Cordoba attacked a church. The Civil Guard intervened, killing one Communist and injuring several.

The police and Communists at Seville exchanged shots. Seven wore wounded.

Two Communists were killed in a fight with the police at Dombrowa (Poland), a coal mining centre. Moscow staged the greatest military parade ever held under the Soviet. Thousands of troops and armed civilians filed past Lenin’s tomb, while 275 aeroplanes manoeuvred overhead. Hundreds of new tanks and armoured cars testified to the increased mechanisation of the Soviet forces. M. Stalin, who look the salute from the plinth of the tomb, afterwards stood there all day while a million citizens paid homage to Lenin. The demonstrations showed that M. Stalin’s ascendancy is still maintained.