MAY DAY THREAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 11

MAY DAY THREAT

FEARS OF BLOODSHED IN EUROPE MOSCOW ISSUES ORDERS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday. Tlie Continenal police have discovered instructions from Moscow ordering Communist riots and bloodshed in the streets on May Day (Wednesday). Scotland Yard learns that the German headquarters of the Reds have bidden London Communists to spare no pains to create disturbances. Two Communists of international notoriety have been refused admission to Britain. The Socialist chief of police at Berlin has issued a manifesto forbidding open-air demonstrations on Wednesday. Police in Berlin to-day fired blank cartridges and arrested 50 people in the otmrse of a series of demonstrations of protest. German Communists predict that there will be serious disturbances throughout Europe on Wednesday, and that a number of people will be killed. The French authorities have prohibited street processions in Paris and will expel all foreigners found taking part in any demonstrations. Seven anarchists and several Communists found distributing revolutionary propaganda have already been arrested. A message from Warsaw says the Polish authorities have decided to permit street meetings and processions on May Day, but are taking elaborate precautions to prevent rioting and bloodshed. The entire police force of Warsaw and 2,000 special reserves will be mobilised to prevent trouble between the Socialists and the Communists.