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. • • ■ { MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS. |tr IBE BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES. Reuter. Paris, May 1. | May-day was quietly celebrated. A'j Syndicalist meeting and procession along jh« Boulevards were dispersed quietly. Petrograd, May 1. The Government proclaimed May day I National holiday. There were extrafrdinary scenes of gaiety and enthusiasm. JJhere wero numberless processions of workmen,- soldiers, sailors, officials, and Students, all fraternising, marching in fhe centre of the city, a million participating. ■;;■ Amsterdam, May 1. The appeal of the German Socialists' iterative and the trades unions tuat Hfcy flay be not observed was generally ibeyed. Work nowhere ceased, there beng no meetings" nor processions. i ''■■'' i Rome, May. May -day Was most tranquilly observed. Berne, May 1. Troops were confined in barracks throughout Germany in readiness to suppress seditious May day manifestations. Machine guUB were posted and the military placarded warnings that munition would be treated as criminals. Troops with machine guns guarded the Palace and Government buildings of Berlin. Despite the precautions Munition "workers in Berlin and Leipzig jjtnicki
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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168GENERAL ITEMS. Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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