MAY DAY IN PARIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 April 1934, Page 5

MAY DAY IN PARIS

ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS \ WARNING TO FOREIGNERS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 28th April. The “Mail’s"; Paris .correspondent says liie new police prefect, M. Longeron, is taking elaborate precautions to ensure order on Ist May, when Communists and Socialists threaten street demonstrations including a 24 hour general strike. The Paris garrison will be confined to barracks and the police and mobile guards will be on duty. M. Sarrut, Minister of the Interior, issued a warning that any foreigner found demonstrating will be arrested and immediately deported. FEELING IN VIENNA Dll DOLLFUSS ’TO SPEAK (Received 80th April, 9.15 a.m.) VIENNA. 29tli April. A Linz message states that unprecedented precautions liavc been taken to ensure Dr Dollfuss a respectful hearing at the open-air meting tomorrow. Extra police numbering 2,100 have been put on duty, and 100 secret police in plain clothes have been posted in hotels and boarding houses. Feeling in the city, where tlie February revolt started, is running high. Thousands of Socialists and Nazis already arrested will be released on Ist May. Hundreds of houses lining Dr Dolfuss’s route have already been searched. Bomb throwing and flags are prohibited, and all peasants arriving in special trains will be searched. LUKEWARM RECEPTION (Received 30th April, 1.15 p.m.) VIENNA, 29th April. Secret police were stationed on roofs to prevent bombing, nevertheless two smoke bombs harmlessly exploded. A crowd of 55,000, mostly pcasonts, considering their duty done when they marched past, mostly went borne not listening to Dollfuss's speech explaining the new Austria, reception of which was lukewarm. SPEECH BY HITLER (Received 30th April, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN. 29th April. Over 1.000,000 are expected to assemble at Toiupelhoferfeld, the Berlin airport, to hear through hundreds of loudspeakers Herr Hitler's May Day speech; A choir of 2000 will sing songs of labour. OBSERVANCE IN RUSSIA (Received 30th April, 8.80 a.in.) MOSCOW, 29th April, i A feature of the May Day celebrations will be a huge red, star-shaped balloon over the city for three days, illuminated by searchlight at night time.