MAY DAY INCIDENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 May 1934, Page 7

MAY DAY INCIDENTS

TROUBLE IN PARIS; , block; of houses besieged (United Press Association—By Electrio--Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, 2nd Alay. Two- thousand police, reinforced bv mobile guards, isolated a large block -bihouses in a working' class district,” ; whence stones were, thrown and -shots" - fired. One officer was wounded. Preparations were being made at 1.39 iu _; the morning to storm the building. '- A-•; later message states that the police-have' fixed searchlights and a special squad----of steel helmets are ready. The officer in charge is awaiting the authority of tlie Atinistcr of the Interior to begin the • assault; - j:-' POLICE IN POSSESSION SEVERAL ARRESTS AIADE (Received 3rd Alay, .12.35. p.m.) PARIS, 2nd 'May. . Communists barricaded the approaches ■- to the block, which police are surround-V'. ing._ The defenders lit huge bonfires behind barricades, showing forms of men naked to the waist and womenwith unkempt hair feeding the flames With. ;7 furniture, doors and window frames. At-. 3.30 the police aided by firemen, took. possession of tlie barricades, the Communists retreating inside thel.houses...7. The poiice waited till dawn then entered the block. Some dwellers .opened,life doors but when the others refused the police battered down tlie doors and o. found a number of men hiding. Twenty • were arrested. ' .' . „ , QUIET IN NEW YORK GUN BATTLE IN HAVANA .- -- NEW ..YORK, .2nd-May;' o' In practically all the large.cities in' the. - western hemisphere radical Labour elements observed May Day, but with the' exception of a gun battle in. Havana jw.'.l serious disorders were reported. •> - In New York Socialists and: Comiuu-. ; nists held separate parades, thepolice- r keeping them apart. .. . " 7 The Havana trouble started when a sniper from the top of a building fired on a parade of ten thousand Communist' workmen, some of whom returned the.v.-,; fire, whereupon troops dispersed the mo.b-. j with machine guns and gas bombs. No one is known to have been killed,..but many were injured. HITLER YOUTH MEETING AUGSBURG HALL b|jRNT ;• A AIUNICH, 2nd ATav. The Augsburg concert hall, where the Hitler youth should have met to-day,.-.., was burnt to the ground after midnight. " Nazi telegraphed to Hitler alleging that Bolshevik incendiaries were responsible, and offered £SOO for the discovery of the culprit. Tlie Nazis protectively arrested seventy-three-.-