MAJORITY FOR GOVERNMENT
POLISH ELECTIONS LATEST REPORT OF THE VOTING TREND
Reed. 11.10 p.m. London. Jan. 20 The latest report of the Polish elections, put out by the Warsaw radio, says that 80,000 votes have been east for the Government bloc of parties as against 15,000 for the Peasant Party.
The “Exchange Telegraph” agency says that reporters at one booth were ordered to leave before a start was made to count the votes, and this tn spite of what had been said over the radio that outside newspapermen would be allowed to stay and see the election through. The general impression was the elections were orderly, but there was noticeable pressure, most of the electors voting secretly, say s "The Times” Warsaw correspondent.
The “Daily Herald’s” correspondent found no attempts at secrecy at the booths, even by curtain or screen. Most voters, however, held their slips so the number on them was invisible before being placed in an envelope which the president of the Electoral Commission then dropped into an urn
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 5
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