Stopped Voting To Shoot Jap. Plane
(Received 11.45 a.m.) (Special) SYDNEY. This Day. Men of an Australian anti-aircraft battery at a northern station, in the middle of recording votes for todays Federal election, had to drop everything to man their guns and drive off a Japanese reconnaissance plane. The incident was one of many, humorous and serious, encountered by army officers acting as returning officers in operational areas. Senior officers have used conveyances from aircraft to jeeps, camels and canoes to secure the votes of troops spread over tens of thousands of miles of country, much of it so remote that there has never been a ballot-box within 300 miles before. So efficient has been army ballot organisation that most soldiers recorded their votes well before polling day.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1943, Page 3
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