MAY DAY RIOTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12543, 3 May 1935, Page 5

MAY DAY RIOTS

CLASHES ON THE CONTINENT. EIGHT KILLED IN BULGARIAN VILLAGE. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) PARIS, May 1 May Day opened in Paris with a Communist riot .Bagnolet, knives and revolvers being freely used. One person was killed. In Madrid, troops were confined to barracks though armed guards patrolled the streets. ■ Three police and five Communists were killed in riots in the, Bulgarian village of Etiina. Six hundred political prisoners were freed as a May Day amnesty in Austria. Police swooped down on Communist headquarters and arrested ,500 persons as a sequel to a. bomb being thrown at the police station in a suburb of Vienna, wounding four. NO DISORDER IN CANADA. COMMUNISTS ROUTED BY BUZZARD. (U.P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Oonvriaht) VANCOUVER, May 1. Alnv Dav in Canada passed without disorder. A. blizzard, with a i°ot of snow and! a howling gale, routed 1 5000 Com munist coal miners who Were march ing on the town of Corbin, in Brit ish Columbia, following Strike riots with the avowed intention of driving out the provincial police. Alb Vancouver, .12,000 pa radars sang ‘Tip. International’ and refused to carry the Union Jack. TAMENESS TN GERMANY. WORKERS UNWILLING TO TURN OUT jUAiR WEATHER BLAMED - (U.P.A, h.v EJee. Tel. Copyright) (Received May 2, S .p.m.) LONDON./ May 1. The May Day celebrations in Germany were marred by a snowstorm. Plans for an °pen air demonstration in Munich were suddenly abandoned, the official excuse being the inclemency of the weather. An uiioffiiat reason wasc the failure of th P workers to turn Out in sufficient mini hers. Though last year, -50.000 attended a similar parade, 'today, only a. few hundred arrived. Later in the day, an indoor meeting was attended by 4000- There is a growing disinclination on the part of Bavarian workers to attend demonstrations. The only really impressive Labour demonstration was in Moscow., May Day were ignored in Italy, Bulgaria and 1 Roumania, while in Austria thousands of Vienna’s poorest unemployed went hungry. ’ The public services in France functioned normally. There was not a single arrest in the Paris May Day disorders which is a record,

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‘LEADERS MEN. NOT COWARDS”

(TT-P.A. by Tol. (Received May 2, 8 p.m.) BERLIN. May 1. At the winding up of th e . May Day celebrations, before a torchlight procession, Herr Geering said • “Never shall we leave Germany s defence position to the politicians of other;- nation's, or cowardly comprctnvilscs at Geneva. W 0 may leave flic others in peace: and demand' that the others leave us in peace. Germany can sleep in peace because ther c are no cowards but men watelling over her.” RIVAL PARADES IN NEW YORK. COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS CARNIVAL SPIRIT (U.P.A. by Ele« Tel. Copyright) (Received May 2, 5 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 1. Between 100,000 and! 150,000 Radi cals demonstrated Imre today in traditional fashion, cesebratingr Inter national Labour Day. Because °t continued, inability to form, a. ‘united front,' the Communists and Social ists held separate, parades through the downtown business section. Tip, Communists claimed 1 COiOOO and the Socialists about twice as many, although the police estimates indicated about half that number. T‘h e Communists the usual gaudy Red banners denoun ci-ng war,, Fascism and other ‘muni testations of Capitalism.” Thousands of police guarded the line of.march, but there was no dis order or violence; in fact., most of the demonstrators displayed a carpi val' spirit rather than a revolutionary aspect. Smaller Left Wing demon stration s were held in the principal cities throughout the nation and in Mexico City and. most capitals of South America but with litle or no violence reported.