MAY DAY,

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1922, Page 5

MAY DAY,

QUIET ON THE CONTINENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 2, 5.5 p.m. Rome. May 1. May Day passed quietly. Shops were closed, no vehicles plied in the streets, and no newspapers were published. Received May 2, 5.5 p.m. ■Paris, May 1. Labour Day passed in Sabbatical calm, except that cabmen and businesses of every kind went on absolutely as usual. A giant aeroplane Goliath cruised over the city, watching a Socialist meeting.— Aus.-N.JJ. Cable Assn. FIASCO IN GERMANY. Received May 2, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, May *l. May Day meetings proved a fiasco owing to heavy rain. The Government, by a clever ruse, prevented interruption of public services while satisfying labor extremists by offering a holiday, but adding that they would not be paid and it would be part of their annual holiday. The result was that practically there were no applications for absence from duty. (School children were also offered a holiday if they brought a letter from their parents. The. result was that scarcely any parents troubled to write. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN’S MAY-DAY PARADES. Tokio, May 1. There were May-Day processions in all the large Japanese cities, and minor clashes occurred with the police who lined the routes. At Tosama, the workers were forbidden to hold a labour parade, but secured their objective by holding it in the guise of a welcome to the Prince of Wales.