PARALYSIS OR MAY DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1932, Page 7

PARALYSIS OR MAY DAY

MUCH VIOLENCE IN SPAIN rioting by communists ONfi OUTBREAK IN LONDON CROWD ATTACKS POLICE By Telegraph~me ß = Assn.-Copyright. London, May 1. On May Day in Madrid work ceased everywhere and the city was paralysed. Oafes, restaurants, ehops, theatres and enemas were closed, taxis remained in the garages, newspapers were not pubiikhed, whd broadcasting was suspended. The authorities forbade voluntary staffs working and prohibited private motors in the streets. Communist demonstrators attacked thb mounted police, flinging five off their horses. Armoured ears suppressed the fidtitig. W arrests were made. Go in munis ts at Cordoba attacked a dhurbh. The Civil Guard intervened, killing' h Gommunist and injuring Several. Police and Communists at Seville exchanged shots and seven Werb Wounded. Two Communists were killed in a fight with thb police at Dombrowa, a Polish coal mining centre. Moscow staged the greatest military pdfade evbf held urifler the Soviet. Thousands of troops and aimed civilians filed past Lenifi’s tomb, while 275 aeroplanes manoeuvred and 100 new tanks and armoured cars testified to the increased mechanisation of the Soviet forces. 6 tafliti, Who took the salute from the pUhth of the tomb, afterwards stood frlibfd ‘all flay While milliona &f citizens paid hoiiiage to Denin. The demonstraShowed that Stalin’S ascendehcy A thousand Communists, after epdebhOS in Hyde Tark, attempted to reach the Japanese Lmbaesy to protest agaibrt thb Japanese policy regarding Shanghai, Mays h London message. They tesehted the police shepherding the procession, go attacked them with a volley of stones. The police charged with batons and hamLbmhatid fighting ensued, in which banner Weirs -fought with banner poles. A police inspector was injured in the fade by broiren bottle. Traffic id All difectiohs was stopped for a hour. Thousands of pleasure-seek-ers stampeded When the fighting began, and fc heavy rainstorm added to the confUßibfi. Light OffOsts/were made. May Day in Tokio pasted without incident. Twelve thousand marched in procession, by 5000 police.

AOTING-imEMIER ASSAULTED.

DISTURBANCE AT MELBOURNE.

Melbourne, May 2

The Trades Halil leaders and the Acting-Premier, Mr. Tunnicliffe, were assaulted in a riot ht the May Day celebrations On. the Yarra bank. Mr. TufinicliffO and the president of the Trudes Hail Council, Mr. Riley, were pushed off a lorry, and while on the ground were savagely assaulted by a number of men. A record crowd witnessed the marches through the city. The Communist Party organised a demonstration in opposition to that of the Trades Hall, and two rival processions marched the Streets. I. LITTLE TROUBLE IN AMERICA. COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, May 1. May Day was celebrated throughout the Western Hemisphere With unUsual quiet. Although demonstrations were held in marly cities in South and Central America and in the United States, there are as yet no reports of Serious trouble. Sixty thousand Communists and Sympathisers paraded in lower New York. Heavy rain kept many spectators away and probably prevented clashes. Three hundred police kept the paraders moving, They also guarded the city hall and other buildings. The demonstrators carried banners demanding free rent and food and employment, and denouncing capitalism.