QUIET MAY DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 962, 3 May 1930, Page 11

QUIET MAY DAY

RED PROCESSIONS WITH SEDITIOUS FLAGS PRECOCIOUS CHILDREN United P.A..—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Thursday. 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 Flag," and the “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 efflges of the Pope, and decrying French and British statesmen. Tomorrow will be a general holiday, to enable the people to recover from their May Day exertions. INJURIES IN PARIS From Berlin it is reported that there rere no disturbances, but members of a proletarian flying club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced land- ; ng in the police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were Injured in scuffles between the police and the demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia in Vienna the police used their truncehons on Communists bearing seditious banners, and arrested 25 of them. A bull, infuriated by the sight of red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Russian border. ARRESTS IN UNITED STATES A message from New York says: With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by the police in 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.