MAY DAY
RIOTS IN SPAIN.
CLASH WITH POLICE.
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received-this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 1
On May Day in Madrid, work ceased everywhere and the city was paralysed. Cafes, restaurants, shops, theatres and cinemas closed,, taxis remained in their garages, newspapers were not published and broadcasting was suspended. The authorities forbade voluntary staffs working and prohibited private motors in the streets.
Communists demonstrating, attacked the mounted police, flinging five off tiheir horses. Armoured cars suppressed the rioting. Eiifty a|rrests were madet.
Communists at Cordoba attacked the church. The civil guard intervened, killing a Communist and injuring several. Police and .Communists at Seville exchanged shots and seven were wounded.
AT AVARS AW
AVARS AW, May 1
At Warsaw two Communists were killed in a fight with the police at Dombrowa, a coal mining centre.
GREAT SOVIET PARADE
AT LENIN’S TOMB
(Received this dav 11.15 a.m.)
MOSCOAV, May I
Moscow staged the greatest military parade ever held under the Soviet, thousands of troops and armed civilians filing past Lenin’s tomb, while 275 aeroplanes manoeuvred. Hundreds of new tanks and 1 armoured cars testified to the increased mechanisation of Soviet forces.
Stalin who took the salute from the plinth of the tomb afterwards stood there all day, while the million citizens paid homage to Lenin. The demonstrations showed Stalin’s ascendancy is still maintained.
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