MAY DAY IN EUROPE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 1937, Page 5

MAY DAY IN EUROPE

VARIED CELEBRATIONS ' LONDON’S PROCESSION Gigantic Parade in Moscow Press Association —Copyright. London, May 1. Europe sp nt a varied May Day. London had the largest Laboui- and Communist procession in its history. It extended over four miles and included a thousand bus strikers, some carrying red flags. Moscow staged a gigantic military parade of 50,000 troops and 200 tanks, with hundreds of modern fighters and bombers overhead. Paris had vast labour demonstrations audi work was brought to a standstill throughout the country. Warsaw had a Communist demonstration which was dispersed by t.he police. A child was trampled to d iath and others were injured. Other celebrations throughout Europe were peaceful, except at Madrid, Which the insurgents shelled. Loyalist troops between bombardments played football in the streets. Everyone at Bilbao remained at work. Berlin witnessed a display of troops and hundreds' of military aeroplanes. Herr Hitler addressed' a monster gathering at the Lustgarten, the 'address being broadcast throughout Germany. He stressed Germany’s claim tu colonies' and added that it was impossible to increase wages as it would increase prices. lie d . nounc 1 critics of Nazism, saying: "Our opponent.' must bow to ns or be broken. This warning applies to ths churches.” There was an attendance of ISO.OOp at a Hitler Youth rally at the Olym pic Stadium. The Fuhrer uttered a veiled threat to the Church by cig-, daring that the Reich would yield the education and 'training of youth to nobody. He announced that 917,000 ten-year-old boys and girls joined the youth organisation on his birthday last week.