MAY DAY.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3778, 3 May 1919, Page 2

MAY DAY.

RIOTS IN AMERICA AND IN PARIS. (Aus.-N.Z.-Cablo Association.) New York, May 1. Soldiers and sailors stormed the May Day Labour demonstration in Madison' Square. Police reserves dispersed the crowds, who left three dead. At Clevela-'id. I ."WAV. riots started when the soldiers seized the red flag carried'in the procession. Paris, May I.

Infantry and cavalry have reinforced the gendarmelrio t*> prevent a May Day demonstration at the Place do la* Concord. Firemen turned the fire-hoses ou tho croAvd, who twice broke the military cordons. Many heads were broken in the baton charges, Another diotous crowd gathered at the Place de Longira and shouted "Down with the Government !" The outlook was uglier at nightfall. London, May 2. The Paris riots continued at night. Tbe demonstrators attempted to barricade the streets but mounted troops charged he mob. A great number were wounded, including Deputy Cochin, editor of L'Humanite, and a municipal councillor.