MAY MY PASSES QUIETLY

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1930, Page 9

MAY MY PASSES QUIETLY

LONDON HUNGER STRIKERS

MANY ARRESTED IN EUROPE ■w.- ‘ \ BULL ROUTS PROCESSION REDS INJURED IN AMERICA By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rcc. 7.10 p.m. London, May 1. May Day passed quietly in most European centres. Hunger-strikers had been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists.' The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the streets singing, The Red Flag and the 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 general holiday to enable the- - people to recover from their May Day exertions.

Berlin reports, no disturbances, 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. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 223 precautionary arrests. Numbers of persons were injured in scuffles between police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police truncheoned Communists bearing seditious banners and arrested twentyfive.

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

'With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, the May Day demonstrations in various cities of the United States were generally without incident. Boston reports that many children took part in the parade 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. A few arrests were made in Newark. New Jersey. •Sporadic fights resulting from Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted-in 50 arrests. None of the disturbances were of considerable proportions.