Orderly in London

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 May 1934, Page 7

Orderly in London

OXFORD REPRESENTED IN DEMONSTRATION .LONDON, May- 1. London's May Day demonstration was one of the most orderly for years. Labourites and the Trades Union Congress did not participate in a procession organised by the Communists .and 'LcftiWingers who, marching by a roundabout route decreed by the j>olice to Hyde 'Park, caused few traffic blocks. The demonstrators included 21 Oxford undergraduates. Gun Battle in Havana TROOPS USE MACHINE-GUNS AND GAS BOMBS Eeceived Wednesday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, May 2. In practically all large cities in the Western Hemisphere radical Labour elements observed May Day, but with the. exception of a gun battle in Havana, no serious -disorders- were' re- [. ported. In New York Socialists and Communists held separate parades, the police keeping them apart. The Havana trouble started when a

; snipor, from the top of a building, fired on a parade of 10,000 Communist workmen, some of whom returned the fire, whereupon troops dispersed the mob with machine-guns and gas bombsv .No one is known to have been killed, but many were injured. The Day in Spain ANARCHISTS ARRESTED MADRID, May 1. The police arrested a number of dangerous anarchists allegedly for attempting to organise demonstrations on May Day. The police charged crowds, and numerous casualties resulted. Quiet in Tokio TOKIO, May 1. May Day was quiet. Thousands of Labourites separated into Right and Left wings demonstrated in Tokio under strong police precautions. There were a few arrests. Calm in Canada VANCOUVER, May 1. Police restrictions and a ban on demonstrations resulted in a quiet May Day . throughout Canada. There were 5000 in an orderly Communist parade at Winnipeg. At Vancouver vandals during the night painted the Cenotaph with. "Down with Fascism" slogans. The home in Toronto of a Ukrainian anti-Communist priest was bombed. No one was injured.