MAY DAY IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 210, 24 May 1918, Page 5

MAY DAY IN RUSSIA

PROLETARIAT CELEBRATES ITS HEY-DAY QUEER DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST "CLASS" London, May 22. Tho Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" states tliat tho Bolsheviki celebrated tho Russian May Day as a "festival of victory over capitalism." Tho celebrations were of the strangest character, and included the daubing of tho Marinsky Palace, the Winter Palace, and tho Government offices with Cubist designs, and the erection of Cubist picture galleries in the Nevsky Prospect Tho allegorical designs represented the prepress of the proletariat, including a picture of the Kaiser as a skeleton Death, with a scythe, mowing down the red flowers of revolutionary Eussia. The celebrations in Mosdow included the wholesale removal of ail monumonts erected in memory of monarchs. Of stautes of the Tsar's times, only a Skobeleff monument was spared. A new statue representing the Revolution was erected before that of Skobeleff. —Atis.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK COSSACKS ENTER SAMARA (Eec. May 23, 7.15 p.m.) Petrograd, May 22. Several of Dutoff's anti-Bolshevik Cossacks havo entered tho Euesian Government of Samara.—Beuter. CADET PARTY FAVOURS LOYALTY TO THE ALLIES (Eec. May 23, 7.15 p.m. ) Potrograd, May 22. Tho Central Committee of the Cadet Party has passed a resolution in favour of continued loyalty to the Allies and opposing any request for German help.— Eeuter. no breadjnTetrograd (Eec. May 23, 7.15 p.m.) Petrograd, May 22. Tho distribution of bread in the city has ceased, having bson replaced by potatoes. Flour is unobtainable. A great fire is reported to have broken out at the dock and station at Archangel — Hsuter. RUSSIAN COMPLAINTS TO BERLIN GERMAN ATTACKS ON WARSHIPS. (Eec. May 23, 7.13 p.ni.) London, May 22. ■ A Russian wireless message complains that Germany is not only attacking- tho Russian warships in tho Black Sea, but that submarines aro shelling the Russian ships, oven thoso with wounded on board. Tho Russian Ambassador at Berlin has been requested to inquire whotlioi' sailing ships may proceed to Norway for fi»h without four rf capture.— Aus.-N.71. Cablo As-n.-Eeuter.