PASSES OFF QUIETLY

Evening Star, Issue 22329, 4 May 1936, Page 9

PASSES OFF QUIETLY

LABOUR DAY IN LONDON WAR-MINDED RULERS CONDEMNED Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 3. (Received May 4, at 11 a.m.) Thousands attended the Labour Day celebrations in Hyde Park, which passed off quietly. Addresses were given from six platforms. Major Attlee condemned the brutal tyranny of the Fascist regime, as exemplified in Abyssinia, which, he said, was an object lesson for the whole world. He taxed the British Government with indecision and lack of confidence, and urged a popular pursuance of a peace policy. A resolution was carried unanimously condemning war-minded rulers for their deliberate violation, of international pledges, and deprecating armaments and military alliances, and urging the pooling of the national resources for collective peace through the League. QUIET IN FRANCE PARIS, May 1. May Day was quiet in France. Mass Labour demonstrations held throughout Franco were very orderly, as the Left Wing parties arc anxious not to prejudice their chances of success in the second ballot in the elections.

SOVIET'S MILITARY DISPLAY MOSCOW, May 1. M. Josef Stalin and M, Molotov, standing by Lenin’s , tomb, inspected a parade of tens of thousands of troops, and more than 1,000,000 citizens, over whom hovered an air armada of 750 aeroplanes, including 375 specially fast small fighting machines. > Increasing mechanisation was the most notablo feature of the military display.