MAY DAY PARADE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 5

MAY DAY PARADE

MILITARISTIC DISPLAYS TROOPS MARCH AT MOSCOW RED SQUARE PROCESSIONS POMP OP NAZIS AT BERLIN HUGE CROWDS IN STREETS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright ' London, May 1. Red Russia and Nazi Germany are vieing in staging the most spectacular May Day, Berlin’s programme extending from , early morning to midnight, while in Moscow all business except political propaganda is suspended for two At Moscow the day was celebrated with the customary importance. Twentyfive thousand troops deployed in the streets surrounding Red Square, . which was dominated by huge portraits of Lenin and Stalin, which were reproduced everywhere on a smaller scale. While Berlin was echoing to the tramp of marching men over 1,000,000 participated in the parade in Red Square, Moscow. Workers began assembling at dawn and endless columns of men, women and children, led by 25,000 picked troops, started to pass Lenin’s tomb at ten o’clock. The rearguard did not cross the square until five in the evening. Moscow is decorated with posters, many urging preparedness for war, “which is just around the corner. Stalin from Lenin’s tomb watched the troops march past. They were accompanied by 1000 tanks while 350 aeroplanes flew overhead. The British Embassy officials were the only foreign representatives absent, but it was noticeable that no anti-British slogans were displayed. > GERMAN CELEBRATIONS. Germany celebrated May Day on an unprecedented scale, but vastly different from that during the pri?-Hitler regima. Berlin’s programme began with a demonstration by 100,000 youths and school children before President Hindenburg and Herr Hitler in front of the exKaiser's palace. Later ten vast processions, some exceeding 120,000 in number, began to converge through streets decorated with millions of Nazi and Nationalist flags to the Templehof aerodrome, where Herr Hitler addressed the throng by means of 100 loud speakers. Workers were paid for the holiday instead of celebrating it at their own expense. Herr Goebels paid a tribute to the youth movement as the cornerstone of the New Germany movement, which had freed German - labour from international money chains. He declared that the barriers of class hatred had been tom down and a brotherhood of the people had arisen. Germany had lost the war but had won the revolution. Paris streets wore a holiday air. A big Labour meeting in the Bois Vicennes resembled a picnic, contrasting with the militaristic Russian and German celebrations. Five thousand workers downed tools, and Paris and dockers took a holiday at Havre and Brest. Public services were interrupted. There were peaceful demonstrations elsewhere in Europe. At Vienna the authorities ensured the substitution of a peaceful stroll for the customary Socialist parade by training { guns on the, . streets and blocking the main thoroughfares with barbed wire j entanglements. £ Public services at Madrid were para- , lysed. Banks, .offices and shops were < closed, and traffic suspended, but the , day was peaceful. ; At Oxford students marched the streets . shouting, “We won’t fight!” , Two thousand employed at Glasgow j came in conflict with the police and dis- 1 organised traffic. 1 London had its usual May Day cele- ( brations, when a long procession as- , sembled at the Embankment and, led by ] a small contingent of police, marched to ( Hyde Park for the customary demonstra- j tion. The event passed off without any j disorder or excitement. May Day throughout Canada was marked by' rigid police restrictions. There t were few arrests and little disorder, par- j ade permits being refused. In Saska- j toon, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver and Moosejaw the police raided the quarters f of Communists, arresting eight and seiz- r ing literature.