MAY DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 5

MAY DAY

SPECTACULAR PARADES

HUGE CROWD IN MOSCOW

NAZIS’ SPECTACULAR DAY

( By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 1.

Red Rdfcsia and Nazi Germany arc vicing with each other in staging the most spectacular May Day, Berlin’s programme extending from early morning to midnight, while in Moscow all business, except political propaganda, is suspended for two days. In Moscow the day was celebrated with the customary importance. Twenty-five thousand troops deployed in the streets surrounding Red Square, which was dominated by huge portraits of Lenin ami Stalin, which were reproduced everywhere on a smaller scale. Stalin from Lenin’s tomb watched the troops march past, accompanied by 1000 tanks, with 350 aeroplanes overhead. British Embassy officials were the only foreign representatives absent, but it was noticeable that no anti-Brit-ish slogans were displayed. While Berlin was echoing to the tramp of marching men, over 1,000,000 people participated in the parade in Red Square at Moscow. Workers began assembling at dawn and endless columns of men, women, and children led by 25,000 picked troops started to pass Lenin’s tomb at 10 o’clock. The rearguard did not cross the square until 5 o’clock in the evening. Moscow is decorated with posters, many urging preparedness for war “which is just around the corner.” German Youth Movement. Germany celebrated May Day on an unprecedented scale, but it was vastly different from that in the pre-Hitlor regime. Berlin’s programme began with a demonstration by 100,000 youths and school children before President Hindenburg and Herr Hitler in front of the ex-Kaiser’s palace. Later ten vast processions, some exceeding 120,1 000, began to converge through the streets, which were decorated with millions of Nazi and Nationalist flags, to the Templehof aerodrome, where Herr Hitler addressed the throng by means of 100 loud speakers. Workers were paid for the holiday instead of celebrating it at their own expense. Herr Goebels paid a tribute to the youth movement as the cornerstone of the new Germany. The movement had freed German labour from the international money chains, he declared. The barriers of class hatred had been torn down and a brotherhood of people had arisen. eGrmany had lost the war but won the revolution. CANADIAN CELEBRATIONS RIGID POLICE CONTROL. VANCOUVER, May 1. May Day throughout Canada was marked by rigid police restrictions. There were few arrests and little disorder. Parade permits were refused. At Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, and Moosejaw, the police raided the quarters of Communists, arresting eight and seizing literature. BOMBINGS IN CHICAGO BUT NO CASUALTIES. Received May 2, 10.55 p.m. NEW YORK, May 2., Communists and other radicals throughout the Western Hemisphere celebrated May Day in the traditional manner with mass meetings and oratory. The demonstrations, however, were unusually free from violence, but the day was greeted in Chicago by a series of five bombings in down-town sections, resulting in about 150,000 dollars of damage, mainly from smashed windows. There were no casualties. LONDON CELEBRATION NO EXCITEMENT AROUSED RUGBY, May 1. London had the usual May Day celebrations, when a long procession assembled on the Embankment and, led by small contingent of police, marched to Hyde Park for the customary demonstration. The event passed off without any disorder or excitement.