MAY DAY RIOTS

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19565, 2 May 1935, Page 7

MAY DAY RIOTS

EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED.. ARREBT OF FIVE HUNDRED. POLITICAL PRISONERS FREED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 2, ii.O a.m.) VIENNA, May 1. Three police and five Communists were killed in riots in the Bulgarian village of Enina. Six hundred political prisoners were freed as a May Day amnesty in Austria. The police swooped down on the Communist headquarters, and arrested 500 people as a sequel to a bomb thrown at the police station In a 'suburb of Vienna, wounding four.

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PARIS, May 1

May Day opened with a Communist riot at 'Bagnolet, knives and revolvers ■being freely used. One person was killed-

CONFINED TO BARRACKS. PRECAUTIONS IN SPAIN. United Press Assn.—Eiac. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 2, 11.0 a.m.) MADRID, May 1. Troops were confined to barracks, though armed guards patrolled the streets.

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AL'L FORCES 'PARADE. IMPERIALISM LAMPOONED. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 2, 11.45 a.m.) MOSCOW, May 1. The Soviet, in the presence of M. Stalin, the Russian dictator, and other leaders, staged an air review over Red Six hundred planes, including motored bombers, and swift interceptors, 30 new superfast attackers, and two-motored monoplanes with a speed of 200 miles per hour, participated. A parade of army, navy and tank units was also held.

Civilian processions followed, featuring an enormous serpent typifying Imperialism, and wearing a Japanese cap over a pig’s snout and marked with a swastika.

Similar parades were held in other cities.

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NO DISORDER IN CANADA. ■REFUSE TO CARRY UNION JACK. (Jutted Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 2, 1 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 1. May Day In Canada passed without disorder. A blizzard with a foot of snow and a howling gale, routed 5000 Communist coal-miners who were marching on the town of Corbin, in British Columbia, following strike riots, with the avowed intention of driving out the provincial police. At Vancouver 12,000 paraders sang the International and refused to carry the Union Jaok.

STOOK EXOHANQE OPEN. FIRST TIME FOR 134 YEARS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 2, 1 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. The Stock Exchange was open today for the flrst time on May Day for 134 years.