MAY-DAY IN EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8100, 3 May 1906, Page 2

MAY-DAY IN EUROPE.

EXCITEMENT IN PARIS. Pabis, April 24. The railway bridges at Paris and the cartridge factory at Sevres are guarded by soldiers. Several frcsli arrests have been mads on a charge of complicity in rebellion and anarchists' plots. Many of the citizens extensively provisioned their houses with supplies ot hams and preserves, which are exhausted. A milch cow was led into a house in the Hue Eoyale. Another family stocked living fish in a bath. Twenty thousand persons hare quitted Paris. Several foreign anarohists have been expelled. Tho morning passed quietly. Lieutenant Fisserand Delangi was arrested for addressing Socialists, and urging them to be quiet, but declaring that he would not allow bloodshed or order the soldiers to fire. One hundred and fifty arrests were made in the streets for refusing to move on. Documents seizod at tho office of Le Petite Eepublique showed that several retired generals had offerod their services to tho leaders of th« alleged conspiracy. NO SERIOUS DISTURBANCES. Received 2, 11.26 p.m. London, May 2. Labor Day was celebrated in most of the large cities on the Continent without serious disturbances, owing to the authorities taking precautionary measures wherover demonstrations were likely to prove disorderly. A good deal of effervescence occurred in Paris, especially at the Place Eepublique, in connection with meetings. Various trades meetings were held all day.

Resolutions were passed in favor of an eight l»our day and Sunday rest. Though sixty thousand troops wore under arms, comparatively few were visible.

Some thousands were arrested, chiefly for disobeying police orders to move oa. Tlie greater number were released.

More serious disorders occurred towards nightfall. Crowds of . roughs hooted and in some eases stoned patrolling dragoons. Frequent souffles occurred with the police, but order was maintained without recourse to revolvers or swords.

A bomb was deposited near Auterlitz bridge, but tho fuse was extinguished without harm. Several bombs were found.

There were noisy demonstrations at Brest, Bordeaux and Lyons, but no serious collisions with the police.