MAY DAY DISTURBANCES

Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1931, Page 7

MAY DAY DISTURBANCES

EUROPEAN CELEBRATIONS

VIOLENCE IN MOST CAPITALS

BOMBINGS AND SHOOTINGS f' TWELVE SPANIARDS SHOT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 1. May Day witnessed the unusual sight of a few men walking in Fleet Street with bandaged heads. 'This was the result of the crowd’s conflict with the police at Hyde Park. Four inen and one woman were arrested and a police sergeant injured. May Day was responsible for the first bloodshed in Spain since the revolution. Successive volleys from an unknown source wounded twelve civilians, three dangerously, in the crowd outside the Government headquarters at Barcelona. The troops restored order. Five thousand participated in the first Labour Day in Madrid, order being maintained throughout. Lisbon’s May Day was quiet until 6 o’clock in the evening, when the crowd in RoiO Square were thrown into panic owing to Communists throwing chlorate of potash bombs. The Republican Guards cleared th® square and closed the shops and re staurants to enable machine-guns and rifles to sweep the area, but there were no casualties. At Berlin Communist gaiigb seriously wounded a policeman, with revolver shots. The only ' other disturbance was. a clash between the Nazis and Democrats. Troops quelled the riot, officials hauling down and teariiig up the Soviet flag. Stone throwing injured five police at Munich. The rioters were dispersed by a mounted baton charge. The procebdings Were without event at Vienna, but forty were arrested at Paris for seditious cries. Parisians apathetically regarded the Communist appeals. Provincial strikes .are numerous. Two policemen and three Communists were killed at Warsaw.when 500 Reds resented police interference with a procesSeveral were wounded. Communists blew lip a bridge over the river nearby, wrecking 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, tanks, anti-aircraft guns,' aeroplane detectors and mounted maehjne-guris. The soldiers renewed the oath to the Soviet Union a.nd the Workers of the World. Mussolini having abolished Labour Day in Italy, May Day passed no differently from any other day. ■ . In Lisbon May Day Casualties include ,two .dead and 14 wounded. Minor incidents of May Day in Berlin led to 82 arrests. Seven were wounded at Munich. JAPAN TAKES PRECAUTIONS. NUMEROUS ARRESTS MADE. Tokio, May 1. In view of rumours of a Cofnniuhist plot in connection with May Day for interference with decide lighting and power supply, ahd organised attacks on official residences,. the police, acting on the principle that prevention is better than cure, attested 800 extremists in the provincial centres during the week and over 300 in Tokio veSter day, also 500 to-day before the starting of a process in which 15,00 d participated, including 1000 women. Six thou, sand police enforced order during the procession, confisdating weapons afid immediately suppressing agitators. Reports iridic Ate’ that' the police in other towns acted with determination to prevent disorder. The total participants through-’ Ptit the country numbered 100,000. Everyone was examined by the police before being allowed to join the processions and disturbers were promptly drffsted. LITTLE TROUBLE IN AMERICA. MANY PARADES AND ORATORY. Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, May 1. May- Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with and. oratory, but virtually there were ho disorders. A few arrests were made, the majority being of women and childrep accused of Spreading radical propaganda in New York city schools. Communists and war veterans guarded Union, Square, the latter heating addresses against the pgitatprs and the former expressing Opposition to capitalism, put the two groups kept apart without clashes. Certain slight disturbances occurred at Boston throughout the day when Communists gathered on the but the police had little trouble in keeping the peace. - , j May Day throughout Canada passed without any serious Local Communists, who were forbidden to parade, abandoned their march at Parliament Hill when the mounted police assembled.