MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20554, 3 May 1930, Page 11

MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

PROCESSIONS IN CITIES.

BRUSHES WITH POLICE.

CHILDREN'S NAIVE REQUEST.

By Telecrnph—Press Association-Copyright. (Received May 2, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON. May 1. May Day passed quietly in most, of the European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London for a fortnight, to take part in a. demonstration in Hyde Park, organised by Communist demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans. These made a procession through the streets singing the "Red Iflag," and tho Internationale. Among the numerous banners and slogans one, borne by children, read: "Down with caning in school."

In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of tho Pope, and decrying French and British statesmen. To-morrow will be a general holiday, to enable tho people to recover from their May Day exertions.

From Berlin it is reported that there wero no disturbances, but members of a 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 wore injured in scuffles between tho police and the demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police used their truncheons on Communists bearing seditious banners, and arrested 25 of them.

A bull, infuriated by tho sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Russian border.

AMERICAN MEETINGS.

COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE.

ARRESTS IN NEW YORK. (Received Mny 2. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 1. With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by the police in a charge, the May Day demonstrations In various cities in the United States were generally without incident. From Boston it is reported that many children took part in a parade there, which was without disorder. At Philadelphia the Town Hall was guarded by the police while Communists held a demonstration close by.

Two Communists were arrested at Schenectady, New York State, for handing out " Red" literature. A few arrests were made at Newark, New Jersey. Sporadic fights resulting from Communist demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in - 50 arrests. None of the disturbances were of any considerable proportions.