MAYDAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1935, Page 7

MAYDAY

AIR REVIEW AT MOSCOW SIX HUNDRED MACHINES PARTICIPATE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2nd May, 10.25 a.m.) MOSCOW, Ist May. The Soviet in the presence of Stalin and other leaders staged an air review over Red Square. Six hundred planes, including four-motored bombers, swift interceptors, thirty new superi'ast attackers, and two-motored monoplanes with a speed of two hundred miles an hour, participated. A parade of the army, navy and tanks was lieid. Civilian processions followed, featuring an enormous serpent, typifying “imperialism” wearing a Japanese cap over a pig’s snout, marked with a swastika. Similar parades were held in other cities.

IN AUSTRIA POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED BOMB THROWN BY COMMUNISTS (Received 2nd May, 10.25 a.m.) VIENNA, Ist May. Three police and five Communists were killed in riots in the Bulgarian village of Enina. Six hundred political prisoners were freed as a May Day amnesty in Austria. The police swooped down on Communist headquarters and arrested five hundred as f* sequel to a bomb thrown at the police station in a suburb of Vienna, wounding four.

RIOT IN FRANCE COMMUNISTS PARTICIPATE (Received 2nd Mav. 10.25 a.m.) PARIS, Ist May May Day opened with a Communist riot at Bagnoiet, knives and revolvers being freely used. No person was killed. CONFINED W BARRACKS

TROOPS IN SPAIN (Received 2nd May, 10.25 a.m.) MADRID, Ist May. The troops were confined to barracks though armed guards patrolled the streets.

BLIZZARD IN CANADA MINE STRIKERS ROUTED VANCOUVER, Ist May. May Day in Canada passed without disorder. A blizzard with a foot of snow and a howling gale routed five thousand Communist coal miners marching on the town of Corbin, in British Columbia, following strike riots, with the avowed intention of driving out the provincial police. At ■Vancouver twelve thousand paraders sang the “International ’ and refused to carry the Union Jack.

STOCK EXCHANGE OPEN FIRST TIME FOR 134 YEARS (Received 2nd May, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Ist May. The Stock Exchange will open today for the first time on May Day loi 134 years.