MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

Wairarapa Age, 3 May 1932, Page 3

MAY DAY IN EUROPE.

NOT MANY DISTURBANCES RECORDED. REDS CLASH WITH POLICE. IN LONDON. EIGHT RIOTERS ARRESTED 1 . LONDON, May 1. May Day was celebrated throughout Europe practically without incident, London providing one of the few disturbances. A thousand Communists, after speeches in Hyde Park, attempted to reach the Japanese Embassy to protest against the Shanghai situation. They resented police shepherding the procession and so attacked them with a volley of stones. The police charged with batons, and hand to hand lighting ensued, in which banner bearers belaboured the police with banner poles. A police inspector was injured in th-j face with a broken bottle. Traffic in all" directions was stopped for an hour. Thousands of pleasure-seekers stampeded. when the lighting began. A heavy rainstorm added confusion. Eight arrests were made. UNREST IN SPAIN. BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL IN MADRID. GREAT MILITARY PARADE IN MOSCOW. LONDON, May 1. On May Day in Madrid work ceased everywhere. The city was paralysed. Cafes, restaurants, shops, theatres and cinemas were closed. Taxis remained m their garages. Newspapers were not published. Broadcasting was suspended, and the authorities forbade voluntary staffs working and prohibited private motors on the streets. Communists demonstrating attacked mounted police, flinging five off their horses. Armoured cars suppressed rioting with fifty arrests. Communists at Cordoba attacked a church. The Civil Guard intervened, killing a Communist and injuring several. Police and Communists at Seville exchanged shots. Seven were wounded. . Warsaw reports that two Communists were killed in a fight with police at Dombrowa, a coal-mining centre. Moscow staged the greatest military parade ever held under the Soviet regime, thousands of troops and armed civilians filing past Lenin’s tomb, while J/5 aeroplanes manoeuvred. Hundreds of new tanks and armoured ears testiiiecl to the increased mechanisation of the Soviet forces. Stalin, who took the salute from the plinth of the tomb afterwards stood there all day, while a million citizens paid homage to Lenin, demonstrations showed that Stahn s ascendancy is maintained. DISORDER IN MELBOURNE. ACTING-PREMIER ASSAULTED. MELBOURNE, May 2. Trades Hall leaders and the ActingPremier, Mr. T. Tunnecliffe, were assaulted in a riot at the May Day celebration on Yarra Bank. Mr. Tunnecliffe and the president of the Trades Hall Council, Mr. Riley, were pushed off a lorry and while on the ground savagely assaulted by a number of men. A record crowd witnessed the inarches through the city. The Communist Party organised a demonstration m opposition to that of the Trades Hall, and the two rival processions marched the streets. QUIET IN TOKIO. STRONG POLICE ESCORT. TOKIO, May I.' . May Day at Tokio passed without incident. Twelve thousand marched in procession, escorted by five thousand police . UN USUAL QUIET. CELEBRATION IN AMERICA. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m ) NEW YORK, May 1. The traditional May 1 International Labour Day was celebrated throughout the Western Hemisphere with unusual . Although demonstrations were field in many cities in South and Central America and 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 / T ' iey § uarded tfie City Hall and other buildings. The demonstrators carried banners demandmg ±ree rent, food and employment, and denounced Capitalism. As May Day fell on a Sunday many ’demonstrations in the United States were held yesterday.