BURMA IN THROES OF FIRST ELECTION SINCE 1936
Eeceived Wednesdav, 8 p.m. LONDON, April 9. The flrst election in Burma sinfee 1936 will be field today, says the Daily Telegraph 's liangoon correspondent, Polling is expected to create a record witli 7,000,000 voters voting. Uniformed bovs arqied with rities, members of a subsidiary of Mr. Aungsan's antiFascist People 's Freedom League, will guard each booth. They have already taken post before the rush at the bantboo "voting shanties" in the shadow of the Goldcn Dragon pagoda, a Buddist shrine at Eangoon. The electors will vote to fill 210 seats in the Assembly. The Commissioner of Poliee at Eangoon has prohibited the carrying of bamhoos, knives and bludgeons. The leader of the Burmese Nationalists, Mr. U. Saw, in a statement on ihe eve of the elections, accused Mr. Aungsan of d.irecting a private army and employing intimidation, bribery and eorruption in the election cam paign. The correspondent says Mr, Aungsan's party is assured of a majority in the Constituent Assembly, Oue or two of its candidates had been returned unqpposed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1947, Page 5
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