Wound German Paraders.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 2, 1913:
Police Attack Them — Thousands of May Day Marchers In London.
    WILHELMSHAVEN, May 1.— The police attacked and wounded a number of workmen participating in a May Day procession in the adjacent village of Rustringen, in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
    There were 2,000 men in the parade, and they disregarded the warnings of the Prussian boundary police and attempted to cross the frontier into Prussia.
    The police thereupon attacked them with drawn swords and dispersed them.

    BERLIN, May 1.— May Day processions generally were forbidden by the Prussian officials to-day, but the authorities of the other States of the empire were less strict.

    ROME, May 1.— May 1 coinciding with Ascension Day this year, workmen and traders generally in Italy took a holiday, but perfect tranquillity was reported throughout the provinces.
    Even at Milan, where 25,000 workmen held a meeting, no disturbances occurred.

    LONDON, May 1.— "Labor Day," which hitherto had been celebrated in a minor key in the British Isles, was to-day greeted in louder tones.
    Some 10,000 men, mostly Socialists, with an admixture of Germans and other foreigners, paraded the streets and subsequently congregated in Hyde Park, where they received with loud cheering fiery denunciations of the thraldom of capital and militarism delivered in half a dozen languages by numerous orators.