MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20863, 4 May 1931, Page 9

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS.

EUROPE GENERALLY QUIET.

FATAL CLASH AT WARSAW. SOVIET MILITARY DISPLAY. By Telegraph—Proas Association—Copy right. (Received May 3, 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, May 2. On May Day a crowd came in conflict with tlio police at, Hyde Park and four men and ono woman were arrested. A police, sergeant was injured. May Tlnv was responsible for the first bloodshed in Spain since the revolution. Successive volleys from an unknown source wounded 12 civilians, three dangerously, who were in a crowd outside the Government headquarters at Barcelona. Troops restored order. In the. first Labour Day demonstrations in Madrid order was maintained throughout. At Lisbon May Day was quiet, until 6 p.m., when the crowd in I'osio Square were thrown into panic when Communists threw chlorate of potash bombs. The Republican Guard clearer! the square and closed the shops and restaurants. Machine-guns and rifles then swept the area, but there were no casualties. At Berlin a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolver shots. The only other disturbance was a clash between Nazis and Democrats. Troops quelled the riot and officials hauled down and tore, up a Soviet (lag. At Paris astonishment was expressed when a Tied flap was seen flying from the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was quickly removed and three workmen were arrested. Similar incidents are reported throughout France, red flags being unfurled from steeples under a general order from the Communist leaders.

In the capital 40 persons were arrested for seditious cries, hut Parisians apathetically regarded (he. Communist, appeals. Provincial strikes were numerous.

Two policemen and three Communists were killed at Warsaw, when 500 Beds resented police interference with a procession and several were wounded. Communists blew up a bridge over a river and nearly wrecked a train. May Day was celebrated in Moscow by a procession of 1,000.000 people, preceded by a march past, of 50,000 troops with tanks, anti-aircraft guns, aeroplane detectors and mounted machine-guns. The soldiers renewed their oath to the Soviet Union and the workers of the world. As the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, has abolished Labour Day in Italv May Day was not different from any other day.

At Munich incidents on May Day led to 82 arrests.

TALK IN AMERICA. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA. VERY LITTLE DISORDER. NEW YORK. May 2. May Day was observed throughout the United States with parades and oratory, but there were virtually no disorders. A few arrests were made, the majority of those being of women and children who were accused of spreading radical propaganda in New York schools.

Communists and war veterans were in Union Square, the latter hearing addresses against agitators, the former expressing opposition to capitalism, but the two groups kept apart without clashes. Certain slight disturbances occurred at Boston throughout the day when Communists gathered 011 the commons, but the police had little trouble in keeping the peace.

A message from Ottawa says May Day throughout Canada passed without serious disorders. Local Communists were forbidden to parade and abandoned a proposed march on Parliament Hill when mounted police assembled.