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LONDON, Sunday. May Day celebrations throughout urope were practically without inident, London providing one of the j\v disturbances. A thousand Communists, after jeeches in Hyde Park, attempted to :ach the Japanese Embassy to proist against the Japanese policy rearding Shanghai. They resented ie police shepherding the procession ) attacked them with a volley of ones. "-''The police charged with ba>ns and hand-to-harid tighting enied in which the banner bearers beboured the police with banner poles. A police inspector was injured in e face with a broken bottle. Traffic in all directions was stopped r an hour. Thousands of pleasKre seekers ampeded when the fighting began, id a heavy rainstorm added to the nfusion. Eight arrests were made.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 213, 3 May 1932, Page 5
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