RED FLAG FLIES FROM NOTRE DAME
May Day in Europe
NO SERIOUS DISTURBANCE
United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PARIS, May 2. Astonishment was expressed when a rod flag was seen flying from the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was quickly removed and three workmen wero arrested. Similar incidents are reported through out France, red flags being unfurled from steeples under a general order from Communist leaders. LISBON, May 2. Tho May Day casualties in Portugal amount to two dead and 14 wounded. BERLIN, May 2. Minbr incidents on May Day led to 82 arrests. Seven were wounded at Munich. Noise, But No Disorder in U.S.A. NEW YORK, May 1. May Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with parados and oratory, but virtually no disorders. There were a few arrests made, the majority being of women and children accused of spreading radical propaganda. OTTAWA, May 2.
May Day throughout Canada passed without serious disorders. Tho local Communists were forbidden to parade, and abandoned their march when the mounted police assembled.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6541, 4 May 1931, Page 7
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