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Show uyifiiswMfnMi fur' if ;IKiSirl 0 8 ynyyasLSti us PARIS, May 1. The extra troops and police had little trouble today with tho crowds and workmen who gathered to celebrate May day with great demonstrations, but late In tho evening things took on a livelier as-, as-, pect and there were many collisions ' in the streets. M. Leplne, prelect of Paris, announced an-nounced that tho disturbances now here had atBumed a serious character, and that this May 1st had passod more quietly than evor before About 0 o'clock several thousand manlfestants reassembled before tho St. Paul riding school near the Bastlle and Hstonod to speeches by revolutionary revolu-tionary leaders. Large forces of police po-lice and troops held the surrounding streets. Tho manlfestants fought tho police In the narrow streets of the old quarter for an hour before being dispersed. Many rioters were kicked down and tramped pn in the charge. A score of police were Injured. |