MAY DAY SCENES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21481, 3 May 1933, Page 9

MAY DAY SCENES

AMERICAN OBSERVANCE BOMBS IN CHICAGO V CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE LITTLE VIOLENCE ELSEWHERE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 2. 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 1 Communists and other Radicals throughout the United States celebrated May Day in the traditional manner with parades, mass meetings, and oratory. For tho 'most part the demonstrations wero unusually free from violence. Tho day was greeted in Chicago, however, by a series of five bombings in tho down-town section. These caused damage estimated at 150,000 dollars, mainly broken windows. There wore jo casualties. PARADE IN MOSCOW HUGE THRONGS PRESENT MARCH THROUGH RED SQUARE MOSCOW, May 1 Bed Bussia vied with Nazi Germany in tho spectacular nature of its May Day celebrations. In Moscow all business except political propaganda was suspended for two days. A forco of 25,000 troops deployed in the streets surrounding Red Square, which was dominated by huge portraits of Lenin and Stalin. These were reproduced everywhere on a smaller scale. Stalin, from Lenin's toipb, watched tho troops march past accompanied by 1000 tanks, while overhead were 350 aeroplanes. British Embassy officials were the only foreign representatives absent, but it was noticeable that no anti-British slogans were displayed. While Berlin was echoing to the tramp of marching men, more than 1,000,000 Russians took part in the parade in Red Square. Workers began to assemble at dawn, and endless columns of men, women and children, led by the 25,000 picked troops, started to pass Lenin's tomb at 10 a.m. The rearguard did not cross the square until 5 p.m. Moscow was decorated with posters, many of which urged the" preparedness for "the war which is just around the corner." ON THE CONTINENT USUAL DEMONSTRATIONS INCIDENTS IN BRITAIN LONDON. May 1 The streets of Paris on May Day wore a holiday air for the big Labour meeting in the Bois de Vincennes, which resembled a picnic ground, in contrast to the militaristic celebrations in Russia and Germany. Five thousand workers "downed tools" in Paris, while dockers made holiday in Le Havre and Brest. Public services were interrupted by peaceful demonstrations.

In Vienna the authorities ensured the substitution of a peaceful stroll for the customary Socialist parade by training guns on the, streets and blocking the main thoroughfare with barbed wire entanglements. The public services in Madrid were paralysed. Banks, offices and shops were closed and traffic suspended, but the day passed peacefully. In Oxford University students marched in the streets, shouting, "We will not fight." Two thousand unemployed in Glasgow had a conflict with the police and disorganised the traffic. There were the usual May Day celebrations in London. A long procession assembled 011 the Thames Embankment and, led by small contingents of police, marched to Hyde Park for the customary demonstration. The event passed off without any disorder or excitement.

DAY IN CANADA POLICE RESTRICTIONS PREVENTION OF PARADES VANCOUVER, May 1 May Day throughout Canada was marked by rigid police restrictions. There were a few arrests but little disorder. Parado permits were refused in Saskatoon, llcgina, Calgary, Vancouver and Moose Jaw. / Parties of police raided the quarters of Communists in several places, arresting eight and seizing literature. BOLSHEVIKS' RULE STRONG INDICTMENT GRAND DUKE'S PROPHECY PARIS, May I The Grand Duke Cyril, head of the Russian Imperial house, in an impassioned indictment of tho Bolsheviks, accuses them of soaking the country in blood, resulting in ruin and desolationThe discord among the rulers, he says, proves that their overthrow is imminent, and that the Nationalist forces are. approaching a triumph.