SUDETENLAND

Grey River Argus, 6 December 1938, Page 7

SUDETENLAND

Election Results BERLIN, December 4. Heavy polling took place in Sudetenland throughout the day. There were no incidents. LATER. The result of the Sudeten elections was that out of 768,742 voters, 762,720 voted, whereof 756,428 were for Yes, and 4,920 No, with 1,372 papers invalid. Marienbad polled a hundred per cent, votes, wherein there was only one No. One member is returned to the Reichstag for every sixty thousand votes. FINAL FIGURES. (Received December 5, 8.10 p.m.) BERLIN, December 5. For the Sudeten election, the final figures show that out of 2,211,895 voters, 2,183,965 voted. The voting was as follows: — Yes 2,152,256 No 26,497 Spoilt Papers .5,212 REICHSTAG SEATS.

41 FOR SUDETENLAND. (Independent Cable.) (Received December 5, 11.40 p.m.) BERLIN, December 5. The provisional final figures in the Sudetenland election show that out of 2,523,346 eligible to vote, 2,497,416 voted. Of these, 2,491,920 were valid votes, and 5,496 were invalid. The votes for Hitler totalled 2,464,497, while 27,426 were cast against. Sudetenland gets forty-one seats in the Reichstag.

Nazi Teachers BAN RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. (Received December 5, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 5. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says: Pastors of the Confessional movement have disclosed from the pulpits that the Nazi Teachers’ Association had instructed its members to discontinue religious instruction in schools, because the Bible glorified a people from whom came the murderer, Herschel Grynszpan. Many pastors are in trouble for sympathising with the Jews.