CAMPAIGNING ORDERED TO STOP AT MIDNIGHT
Rec. 10 p.m. LONDON, Apl. 16. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Express says that the Government has ordered that all active election campaigning must end at midnight to allow one day’s calm before the polling starts on Sunday. All over the country the .police are now making a show of 'force, parading, drilling and speeding through the cities in jeeps. Many fear that some last-minute surprise by the Communists, whose electoral chances appear to be continuously dwindling and aircraft are in readiness to fly reinforcements to any trouble spot.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26748, 17 April 1948, Page 7
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96CAMPAIGNING ORDERED TO STOP AT MIDNIGHT Otago Daily Times, Issue 26748, 17 April 1948, Page 7
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