MAY DAY PASSES OFF VERY QUIETLY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19060, 3 May 1930, Page 1

MAY DAY PASSES OFF VERY QUIETLY.

DEMONSTRATIONS HELD IN EUROPE AND U.S.A. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 1. May Day passed quietly in most of the European centres. Hunger strikers have been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in the Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists. The demonstrators, including Lascars and other non-Europeans, made a procession through the streets singing the “ Red Flag ” and the “ International.” Among the numerous banners bearing slogans, one carried by red clothed children read, “ Down with caning in school.” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and decrying French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable people to recover from their May Day exertions. Berlin reports no disturbances, but members of the Proletarian Flying Club flew over the processions, and one machine, by the irony of fate, made a forced landing in the police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where police made 223 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between the police and demonstrators in Czecho-Slovakia. In Vienna the police attacked with their truncheons Communists bearing seditious banners and arrested twentyfive. A bull, infuriated by the sight of the red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Russian border. A message from New York says:— With the exception of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriously injured by a police charge, the May Day demonstrations in the various cities of the United States were generally without incident. A report from Boston states that many children took part in the parade there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia town hall was guarded by police while Communists held a demonstration near by. Two Communists were seized in Schenectady while handing out “Red” literature. A few arrests were made in Newark, New Jersey. Sporadic fights resulting from Communists’ demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in fifty arrests. None of the disturbances was of considerable proportions.