REDS CELEBRATE MAY DAY WITH MARTIAL POMP.
SFECTACULAR MARCH PAST LENIN’S TOMB TAKES EIGHT HOURS. By Telegraph.—Tress Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Mar 2. 1-30 p.m.) MOSCOW, May 1. It is estimated that half a million civilians and thousands of troops participated in May Day demonstrations in Red Square, which began at dawn with the blare of fifty silver trumpets, aeroplanes with red streamers flying above and a spectacular march past Lenin’s tomb, which lasted eight hours. Celebrations throughout the country' were on a stupendous scale. By means of wireless signals the troops everywhere took the oath simultaneously.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18144, 2 May 1927, Page 11
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