BAVARIAN ELECTIONS
GERMAN REFERENDUM FORMS FOUND (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) • LONDON, May 26. When voters opened the old ballot envelopes used in to-day’s Bavarian municipal elections they found in them completed forms for the German referendum on the annexation of Austria which had not been removed for counting in 1938, says the American News Service in Germany. Early returns in Frankfurt give the Social Democrats 60,000 votes, and the Christian Democrats 50.000. The Communists are running third. COMMUNISTS LEAD IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA (Rec. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. The first Czechoslovakian general election returns show a clear lead for the Communists with the Benes National Socialists second. Progress results are:—Communists, 316,000; National Socialists, 262,000; Social Democrats, 127,000; Catholic Peoples’ Party, 97,000. Reuter’s Prague correspondent sayif stringent precautions were taken to prevent abuses of Czechoslovakia’s first post-war elections. Voters selected the ballot papers behind little screens and polling proceeded with smooth, clockwork precision. Heav-ily-veiled Carmelite nuns, who normally are never allowed out of doors, were among the voters. As voting is compulsory they left the convents by special permission in the company of novices. _
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1946, Page 5
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