MAY DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 2

MAY DAY

EUROPEAN DEMONSTRATKINS. 'United Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, May ]. May Day witnessed an unusual -fight there being a few of the men walking through p'leet Street with bandaged heads. This was tlu* result of the crowds being in conflict with the police at Hyde Park. Four men anj one woman were arrested and a police sergeant was injured. BLOODSHED r$ SPAIN. LONDON, May 2.

May Day was responsible for the first bloodshed in Spain since the Revolution. Successive volleys were fired from an unknown source, which wounded twelve civilians, three of them dangerously, in a crowd outside the Government headquarters at Barcelona, Troops restored order. Five thousand ppople participated in the first Labour Day in Madrid, order being maintained throughout.

AT PORTUGUESE CAPITAL. LISBON, May 1. Lisbon's May Day wa« quiet until six o’clock in the evening, when ft crqwd in the Rosio Square was thrown into a panic owing to Communists throwing chlorate of potassium bombsThe Republican Guard cleared the Square, ami closed the shops and restaurants, thus enabling machine guns and rifles to sweep the area, but there was no casualty-. G ERM A N DEMONSTR ATI ONS. LONDON, May 2. At Berlin a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolver shots. Tlie only other disturbance in Berlin was a cljish 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 Vive '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. FR ENCH DEMONSTR ATKINS. LONDON. May 2. In the May Dnv demonstration a* Paris, forty persons wore arrested for seditious oides, but the Parisians apathetically regarded the Communist flpneals. French provincial strikes for May Day were numerous,

POLISH CONFLICTS. LONDON, May 2. Two policemen and threp Communists were killed at Warsaw, when hundred Reds resented the notion of the police in interfering with the May Day procegsion. Several were wounded. Ths-> Communists blew up a bridge over a river, nearly wrecking a train. SOVIET CELEBRATIONS. BONDMny 2. May Day wafi celebrated in Moscow by a procession of one million people preceded bv a march past of fifty thousand troops, with tanks, anti-air-craft guns, aeroplane detectors and mounted mnehine 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. LISBON, May 2. The May Day casualties here amounted to two dead and fourteen wounded.

GERMAN ARRESTS. BERLIN, Mfv 2. Minor incidents on May Day led to eighty-two arrests Seven were wounded at Munich, IN NORTH AMERICA CELEBRATIONS GENER A L NEW YORK, M"v 1. May Day celebrations 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 agitators, and th e former expressing position to capitalism; but the two groups kept apart without clashes. Certain slight disturbances occurred at Boston throughout the day, when the Communists gathered on the commons, but the police had little trouble in keeping the peace.