RED DISPLAYS ON MAY DAY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18867, 4 May 1931, Page 9

RED DISPLAYS ON MAY DAY.

Communist Demonstrations,

POLICE PREVENT DISORDERS. I United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 3, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 2. May Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with parades and oratory, but virtually there were no disorders. A few arrests were made, the majority being of women and children accused of spreading radical propaganda in New York City schools. The Communists and War Veterans guarded Union Square, the latter hearing addresses against the agitators, and the former expressing opposition to capitalism, but the two groups kept apart, without clash. Certain slight disturbances occurred at Boston throughout the day when the Communists gathered on the commons, but the police had little trouble In keeping the peace. In Canada. May Day throughout Canada passed without serious disorders. The Ottawa Communists w’ere forbidden to parade, and they abandoned their march on Parliament Hill, when the mounted police assembled. DEMONSTRATIONS IN EUROPE. LAWLESSNESS FIRMLY HANDLED. United Frees Association —By Eleetrle Telegraph- Copyright LONDON, May 1. May Day witnessed the unusual sight of a few men walking Fleet Street with bandaged heads. This was the result of the crowd’s conflict with the police at Hyde Park. Four men and one woman were arrested. A police sergeant was injured. Bloodshed in Spain.

May Day was responsible for the first bloodshed in Spain since the revolution.

Successive volleys from an unknown source wounded 12 civilians, three dangerously, in a crowd outside the Government headquarters at Barcelona. Troops restored order. Five thousand participated in the first Labour Day in Madrid, order being maintained throughout. Reds Busy in Europe. Lisbon’s May Day was quiet, until 6 o’clock in the evening, when a crowd in Rosio Square was thrown into a panic owing to Communists throwing chlorate of potash bombs. The Republican Guard cleared the Square, and closed the shops and restaurants, enabling machine guns and rifles to sweep the area, but there were no casualties. At Berlin a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolver shots. The only other disturbance was a clash between the Nazis and Democrats, troops quelling the riot, and officials hauling down and tearing up the Soviet flag. Stoning injured five police at Munich. The rioters were dispersed by a mounted baton charge. Proceedings were without event at Vienna. Forty were arrested at Paris for seditious cries, but the Parisians apathetically regarded the Communist appeals. Provincial strikes are numerous. Two policemen and three Commun-

ists were killed at Warsaw, when 500 Reds resented the police interfering with a procession. Several were wounded. The Communists blew up a Ttoridge over a river, nearly wrecking a train. Signor Mussolini having abolished Labour Day in Italy, May Day passed no different from any other day. Military Display in Russia. 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, aeroplanes, detectors and mounted machine guns. Soldiers renewed the oath to the Soviet Union, and Workers of the World. DISORDERS PREVENTED IN JAPAN. SUCCESS OF POLICE PRECAUTIONS. United Frees Association— By Eleotrlo Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, May 1. Reports indicate that the police in ( other towns acted with determination to prevent disorders at May Day demonstrations. ’ The total participants throughout 1 the country numbered 100,000. Everyone was examined by the police before being allowed to join the pro- ! cessions, and disturbers were promptj ly arrested. r PARIS CELEBRATIONS. 1 RED FLAGS ON CATHEDRALS. United Press Association —By Electric 1 Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 3, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 2. Astonishment was expressed when s the Red Flag was seen flying from the J tower of the Notre Dame Cathedral. It was quickly removed, and three d workmen were arrested, d Similar incidents were reported throughout France, Red Flags being „ unfurled from steeples, under a general a order from the Communist leaders, i- In Other Places. ® May Day casualties in Lisbon ’ totalled two dead and fourteen i- wounded. S Minor incidents on May Day led to ® eighty-two arrests in Berlin. Seven were wounded at Munich.