A QUIET MAY DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9

A QUIET MAY DAY

COMMUNISTIC ACTIVITY IN CITIES SOME CLASHES WITH POLICE IBy Telegraph—Pxenr Association —Copyright) Received May 2, 8.15 p.m. LONDON. May 1. May Day passed quietly in most European centres. Hunger strikers had been converging on London during the past fortnight to participate in a Hyde Park demonstration organised by Communists. Demonatrators. including Lascars and other Hon-European*, made a procession through -.he street* .waging the Ke<l Flag and the internal ionale. Among numerous banner slogans, one borne by children read ••Down with Caning in Schools.” In Moscow the streets were filled all day with demonstrators carrying effigies of the Pope and deterring French and British statesmen. To-morrow has been declared a general holiday to enable the people to recover from the May Day exertions. Berlin report® 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 a police athletic field. Quiet prevailed in Paris, where the police made 21’3 precautionary arrests. A number of persons were injured in scuffles between police and demonstrators jn Czecho-Slovakia. la Vienna the police truncheoned Communist® bearing seditious banners and arrested 25. A bull, infuriated by the sight of the red flags, dispersed a procession at Wolkowsk, Poland, near the Russ an border. SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNISTS. RIOTOUS ASSEMBLIES BILL. CAPETOWN. May 1. The Assembly nad a th.id time the Riotous Assemblies Bill. General Hertzog had declared that if the measure were rejected he would appeal to the country. • UNITED STATES REPORTS CITIES GENERALLY QUIET Received AT ay 2. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, May 1. With the excepti of Oakland, California, where four parading Communists were seriou- ly injured by a police charge. the May Day demonstrations in the various cities in the United States were generally without incident. Boston reports that many children were included in the parade there, which was without disorder. The Philadelphia Town Hall was guarded by police, while the Communists held a demonstration nearby. Two Communists were seized in Schenectardy while handing out Red literature. A few arrests were made in Newark, New Jersey. •Sporadic lights, resulting from Communistic demonstrations in various parts of New York City resulted in 50 arrests. None of the disturbances was of < rable proportions.