MAY BAY PASSES QUIETLY IN MOST EUROPEAN CITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7207, 3 May 1930, Page 7

MAY BAY PASSES QUIETLY IN MOST EUROPEAN CITIES

Some Broken Heads &NTI-BOLSHEVIK BULL DISPERSES PROCESSION MOSCOW’S TWO-DAY HOLIDAY. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.10 p.m. LONDON, May 1. May Day passed quietly in ruosi European centres. Hunger-strikers have keen converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists. The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, mado a pro-, cession through the streets, singing the Red Flag and the Internationale. Among the numerous banners and slogans, one borne by Red children read “Down with caning in School.” In Moscow, the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and French and British statesmen. Tomorrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances but members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons wero in* jured in scuffles between police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna, police truncheoned Communists bearing seditious banners and arrested 25. A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, in Poland, near the Russian border. Some Disturbances in United States Centres FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT AT OAKLAND. Received Friday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, May 1. With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, May Day demonstrations in tho various cities of the United States were generally without incident. Boston reports that many children veere in the parade there, which passed without. disorder. The Philadelphia Town hall was guarded by police while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out Red literature.

A few arrests were made in Newark, near Jersey and sporadic fights resulting from Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in 50 arrests. None of the disturbances was of considerable proportions.