MAY DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21016, 3 May 1930, Page 13

MAY DAY

WIDESPREAD OBSERVANCE. FEW DISORDERS REPORTED, PROCESSION IN JAPAN. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) TOKIO, May 1. As a precautionary measure against May Day disorders, 200 trouble-makers were lodged in gaol over-night. To-day passed without serious disturbances. The processions were escorted by 5000 police, who enforced order. One thousand women participated in the procession. AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS. VERY LITTLE DISORDER. NEW YORK, May 1, (Received May 2, at 8 p.m.) With the exception of Oakland, California, where four' Communists were seriously Injured In a police the May Day demonstrations in various cities in the United States were generally without incident. Boston reports that many children were in a parade held there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall. was guarded by police while Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out Red literature, and a few arrests were made in Newark, New Jersey. Sporadic fights arising out of Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York city resulted in 50 arrests, but none of the disturbances were of considerable proportions. EUROPEAN CENTRES QUIET. EFFIGIES OF POPE IN MOSCOW. LONDON, May 1. (Received May 2, at 9 p.m.) May Day passed quietly in most European centres. Hunger strikers have been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park, demonstration organised by Communists. Demonstrators, including Lascars .and other non-Enropeans, made a procession through the streets, singing “The Red Flag ” and “ Internationale.” Among numerous banners and slogans one, borne by “Red” children, read, “Down with caning in school,” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope, and French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a genera] holiday to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. Berlin reports that there were no dis turbances, but members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. x Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of. persons was injured in scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czechoslovakia. , In Vienna the 1 police used their truncheons on Communists who were bearing seditious banners, and t‘h?y arrested 25. A. bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Russian border.