MAY DAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1917, Page 5

MAY DAY

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PRECAUTIONS IN GERMANY.

BERNE May 2

A wireless message states that troops were confined to barracks throughout Germany in readiness to suppress sedition at the May Day manifestations. Machine-guns were posted and the military placarded warnings that muntion strikers would be treated as criminals. Troops with machine-guns guarded the palace and Government buildings in Berlin. Despite the precautions the women munition makers in Berlin and Leipzig struck. CELEBRATIONS IN ROME. ROME, May 2. May Day was most tranquilly observed. HOLIDAY IN RUSSIA. ENTHUSIASTIC CELEBRATIONS. PETROGRAD, May 2. ■The Government proclaimed May Dav a national holiday. There were extraordinary scones and great enthusiasm. Numerous processions—the workmen, soldiers, sailors, officials, and students fraternising—marched, to the centre of the city, a million people participating in the* meetings.

CELEBRATIONS IN PARIS.

SYNDICALISTS DISPERSED,

PAIIIS, May 2

May Day was quiet. A Syndicalist meeting and procession in lae boulevards was dispersed quietly.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN CER-

MANY.

DETAILS MEAGRE

[AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION.)

AMSTERDAM, May 2

Details, of the May Day demonstrations in Germany are scanty. Berlin admits that there were a few strikes, but the majority of workmen did not stop.

The Yorwaertg gives a significant warning against impatience and implores the people to be calm. The newspaper believes that 09 jier cent, of the soldier.; will become Pacificists after the war.

Vienna, reports state that orderly strikes sire general in Austro-Hunga ry, demanding peace without annexations and humiliations.

SOCIALIST DEMONSTRA- . TIONS. HELD IN SWITZERLAND. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] GENEVA, May 2. Huge Socialist demonstrations at Zurich were without incident. BIG PROCESSIONS. HELD IN SWEDEN. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] STOCKHOLM May 2. M. Bran ting and other loading Socialist* headed the greatest demonstration ever known in Scandinavia. The speeches and banners demanded more food and better conditions. There weie similar demonstrations , elsewhere in Sweden. • ’ -