HEAVY VOTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26769, 12 May 1948, Page 5

HEAVY VOTING

SOUTH KOREAN ELECTIONS SEOUL, May 10. In the South Korean elections, held to-day. it is estimated that more than 6.000,000 persons voted, says the United Press correspondent. Ninety-three persons have been killed. When the polling ended it was obvious that the attempts of the Communists to prevent the election had utterly failed. Early reports indicated an almost maximum vote ranging from 85 to 98 per centof the electors. Lieutenant - general John Hodge, commander-in-chief of the American forces in South Korea, said that the capture of Communist plans to upset the election had enabled the police authorities to take adequate steps to prevent mass terrorist activities. He emphasised, however, that the Communists were certain to attempt to destroy the ballot boxes to-night, when they are taken from the polling booths to the central counting centres.