MAY DAY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 2 May 1929, Page 5

MAY DAY.

SERIOUS SITUATION IN BERLIN. POLICE FIRE ON RIOTERS. (Per Press Association —Copyright). Australian Press Association. United Service. Rec-ived this day, 9.45 a.m. BERLIN, May 1. The May Day situation is developing and is rapidly becoming menacing. There was heavy rioting in the. heart of the city. In the working class suburbs the rioters stopped motor ears and ejected the passengers. The police were heavily stoned, and opened fire on the rioters and had increasing difficulty in dispersing the crowds. Many were injured. There were two hundred arrests. Nobody was allowed within one mile of the Wilhelmstrasse, which was strongly guarded. IN PARIS. TWO THOUSAND ARRESTS. Australian Press Association. United Service. Received this day, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, May 1. Many factories are idle. There were two thousand arrests, including fifty foreigners. Aeroplanes were patrolling during the parades. GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN MOSCOW. A MILLION IN PROCESSION Australian Press Association. United Service. Received this day, 10.5 a.m. MOSCOW, May 1. There was a great two days’ demonstration in Red Square. There were nearly’a million in the procession.