MAY DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 5

MAY DAY

DULY CELEBRATED

IN EUROPEAN CAPITALS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright).

LONDON, May 1

Europe spent a varied May Day

London had the largest Labour Communist procession in its history. It extended over four miles.

This procession included a thousand of the bus strikers. Some of them were carrying red flags. Mosc'ow staged a gigantic military parade of fifty thousand troops, with two hundred tanks, and with hundreds of modern fighters and bomber planes overhead.

Berlin witnessed a display by troops. There also were hundreds of military aeroplanes.

Paris had vast Labour demonstrations. Work was brought to a standstill throughout France.

Warsaw had a Communist demonstration. This was dispersed by the police. A child was trampled to death and others were injured. Other celebrations, throughout Europe, were peaceful, except in Madrid, which the insurgents shelled. Loyalists troops, between the bombardments, played football in the streets.

HITLER’S THREAT.

AT MAY DAY CATHERING.

BERLIN, May 1

The Fuhrer, Herr Hitler, to-day addressed a monster May Day gathering at Lustgarten. His speech was broadcast throughout Germany. He stressed Germany’s claim to possess colonies again. He added that it would be impossible to increase wages, as this would increase prices. Herr Hitler denounced the critics of Nazism saving: “Our opponents must bow to us, or be broken. This warning applies to the churches.”

There was an attendance of 180,0(X) young people at a Hitler Youth rally at the Olympic Stadium.

The Fuhrer here uttered a veiled threat to the churches, by declaring that a Reich would yield the education and the training of the youth to nobody. He also announced that 917,000 ten-year-old hoys and girls had joined the Hitler Youth Organisation on his birthday, last week.