QUIETEST ON RECORD

Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 7

QUIETEST ON RECORD

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS GRAVE ISSUES HAVE SOBERING EFFECT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, May 1. (Received May 2, at 11 a.m.) It is estimated that 85 per cent, of the million voters polled at the elections, which were the quietest ever known in France, indicating a realisation of the gravity of the economic and international issues. CANDIDATE KILLED PARIS, May 1. (Received May 2, at 11 a.m.) M. Jean Ossola, who was seeking reelection at Belfort, was hastening there in a facing car, which overturned, killing him and his son-in-law. , , BEFORE THE POLLING LONDON, April 30. The electoral campaign has ended in France, and the polling will take place on Sunday, but the definite result cannot be expected for some time. Only about oen-third of the deputies are likely to bo returned at the first ballot.. These must obtain not merely more votes than their opponents, but more than half the votes cast. Tho fate of the rest will be decided on the second ballot on May 8. The polling booths will bo'’open at 7 a.m., and it is expected that approximately 11,000,000 voters will go to the poll. Tho May Day demonstrations are expected, in the circumstances, to bo very ' quiet. M. Tardieu, who is improving in health, will listen to tho results by wireless in his bedroom. The 1 Observer’s ’ Paris correspondent, while stressing that it is always difficult to prophesy the result of a French election, says; “ A definite swing to tho Left, like that of 1924, will naturally make such a Government as M. Tardiou’s impossible, but it seems less likely to-day than six months ago.”