MAY DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14111, 3 May 1920, Page 5

MAY DAY.

CELEBRATIONS® AT HOME. PASS WITHOUT SERIOUS INCIIIENT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian aridN.Z. Cable Association.) (Received -Monday, 9 a.in.) LONDON, Sunday. According to the latest reports la 1 nun- 's May Day celebrations pttssed wilumt scions incident. The-'t- were particularly good-humoured demons*.rations. In England an unofficial hhlf-hoiiday was observed, generally in some industrial areas, and half-heartedly in others. - - Everywhere the vital services, with the exception of the London dockyards, were not affected. . The chief fcatifre of London's calc-ulation.-consisted of a mammoth .procession, admirably marshalled, by the police, followed by open-air, meetings in Hyde Park, where there were 72 platforms from which resolutions, extending fraternal greetings to colleagues all over the world, demanding housing reform, amnesty ■ to political military prisonres, -endowment- of motherhood, etc.,, were carried. No-prominent Labour leaders participated. ’ ... . CELEBRATION IN RUSSIA. (Received Monday, 9 ami.) : LONDON, (Saturday. ' A .Moscow wireless states-.that KvnP sia is celebrating May Day. , Voluntary work in factories began at an earlier, hour than usual.- oi- •• WORK SUSPENDED IN GERMANY. ... i (•Received -Monday, 9 a.iu.) BKRLI N, Saturday. Despite the National Assembly s opposition, May Day eelei.e-aiions were held. * Factories, offices and shops wen* dosed, and traffic, with the exception of the. railways, was suspended. Numerous Socialist, meetings were held. STRIKERS FORESTALLED. (Received Monday, 9 u.m.) PRAGUE, Snutrday. The Government forestalled the strikers by proclaiming a general holiday in (.'/.echo-Slovakia. DISORDER IN PARIS. (Received Monday, 9 a.ui.) PARIS, Saturday. Tlio May Day strikers in Place do la, Rcpublique attempted to interfere with the motor-.’buses. • Disorder ensued and some shots were fired, but. no casualties are reported. Twenty persons were-arrested* four civilians Killed. (Received Monday, 9.20 a An.) PARIS, Sunday. Four civilians wore killed and 12 wounded in. the! riot in the Place do la Rcpublique. ' * POLICE AND CIVILIANS . r WOUNDED. (Received Monday, 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, Sunday. The extremists among 3000 demonstrators in the Place de la Rcpublique last night exchanged many shots with the police. Four of the latter and many civilians were wounded.