MAY DAY

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1931, Page 5

MAY DAY

WORLD OBSERVANCE European Demonstrations MANY POLICE INTERVENTIONS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 2 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 1. May Day witnessed an unusual sight, there* being a few of the men walking through Fleet Street with bandaged heads. This was the result of the crowds being in conflict with the police at Hyde Park. Four men and one woman wore arrested and a police sergeant was injured. BLOODSHED IN SPAIN. LONDON. May 2. May Day was responsible for the first bloodshed in Spain since the Revolution. Successive vollies were fired from an unknown source, which woundded twelve civilians, three of them dangerously, in a crowd outside the Government headquarters at Barcelona. Troops restored order. Five thousand people participated in the first Labour Dav in Madrid, order being maintained throughout.

AT PORTUGUESE CAPITAL. PANIC IN EVENING. LISBON. May 1. Lisbon’s May Day was quiet until six o’clock in the evening, when a crowd in the Rosio Square was thrown into a panic owing to Communists throwing chlorate of potassium bombs. The Repbjican Guard cleared the Square, and closed the shops and restaurants, thus enabling machine guns and rifles to sweep the area but there was no casualtv.

GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, May 2. At Berlin a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolver shots. . The only other disturbance in Berlin was a clash between Nazis and Democrats, the troops quelling the riot. The officials hauled down and tore up a Soviet flag. There was stoning of the police at Munich, which injured five police. The Munich rioters were dispersed by a mounted baton charge. IN AUSTRIA. LONDON, May 2. The May Day proceedings were without event at Vienna.. FRENCH DEMONSTRATONS. LONDON. May 2. In the May Day demonstration at Paris, forty persons were arrested for seditious cries, but the Parisians apathetically regarded the Communist appeals. French provincial strikes for May Day were numerous. POLISH CONFLICTS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON. May 2. Two policemen and three Communists were killed at Warsaw, when five hundred Reds resented the action of the police in interfering with the May Day procession. Several were wounded. The Communists blew up a bridge over a river nearly wrecking a train. SOVIET CELEBRATIONS. MILLIONS IN MOSCOW PROCESSION. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, May 2. May Day was celebrated in Moscow by a procession of one million people, preceded by a march past of fifty thousand troops, with tanks anti-air-craft guns, aeroplane detectors, and mounted machine guns. The soldiers renewed the oath to the Soviet Union, and the workers of the world. IN ITALY. LONDON, May 2. Signor Mussolini having abolished Labour Day in Italy, May Day passed off no different to any other day. LISBON CASUALTIES. (Received May 3 at 5.5 p.m.) LISBON. May 2. The May Day casualties here amounted to two dead and fourteen wounded. GERMAN ARRESTS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cabin Assn.) BERLIN, May 2. Minor incidents on May Day led to eighty-two arrests. Seven were wounded at Munich.

IN NORTH AMERICA

Celebrations General (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, May 1. (Received May 2 at 5.5 p.m.) May Day were observed throughout the United States, with parades and oratory. There were virtually no . disorders. A few arrests were made, the majority of these being those of women and children accused of spreading radical propaganda- in New York City schools. Both the Communists and War Veterans .guarded Union Square, the latter hearing addresses against agir tators, and the former expressing opposition to capitalism; but the two groups kept apart without dashes. Certain slight disturbances occurred at Boston throughout the day, when the Communists gathered on the com-

mens, but the police had little trouble in keeping the peace. CANADIAN CELEBRATIONS. OTTAWA, May 1. May Day throughout Canada passed without any serious disorders. The Ottawa Communists were forbidden to parade, and they abandoned their march-at Parliament Hill, when mounted police assembled.