POLLING DAY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 173, 15 March 1932, Page 5

POLLING DAY

ess. Assn.-

VAST QUEUES AWAIT TURN TO VOTE 'RAYERS FOR HINDENBURG

— By TeTeir^ph — Ccpyrlgtit).

BERLIN, Sunday. 'he city awoke to the presidential ling day to find the streets covered h snow, enabling enthusiasts to struct snow effigies of their preratial choices. Every square in lin possessed a snow man or either rshal Hindenburg or Herr Hitler, l this was jealously guarded by respective party supporters. rast queues awaited the opening he booths at nine in the morning. |y being mostly situated in taverns a'e the voters were able to drink health of their champions. 'he police were active controlling crowds all day, who were generpeaceful. Three hundred arrests e made for minor offences. here were very animated scenes ihe Nazis' headquarters. Despite police prohibition, motor cars and es careered through the streets vering millions of prbpaganda lets often claiming astounding success. The Nazis also used |i)lanes, one of which crashed, the ipants being injured. he Communists' activities were fly in the working class districts ierlin where many red flags bearSoviet emblems, were displayed. Grim Humour Hitlerite daubed in five-foot leton a cemetery wall "Vote for |er! The third Reich is near," and opponent scrawled beneath, "It jehind this wall." 'here were remarkable sceries in LhinelaricTU 'housands of Roman Catholics at [o'clock last night went 'on a pilpage to an ancient chapel on the skirts of Cologne and knelt .in -the 1 for three hours praying for Mar1 Hindenburg's success. Twerity iisand went thence in procession •he Cathedral .where they attended pecial msiss at three in the morripacking* the building to suffocai. Eleven thousand received comhion at fifteeii altars. This circumice was unparalleled in the Cathal for centuries. Churches everyire were crowded all day long, ■people f ervently praying for Mar- | Hindenburg's return. U outstanding feature of the poll- ,• Was the women's unprecedented i, 90 per c'ent. voting appareritly 'Hindenburg. Preserving Grder jtringent precautions were taken preserve order throughout the hty. There were frequent pati of foot and mounted police armvith carbines, bayonets and truch-

eons in all the large cities. :.Neyerthej'ess fhbre were numerous clashesj notahly in Prussia, and the Rhineland. At Remsheid the Nazis claghed witH Commtinists, three of the lattef beiiig kiile^. The police rushed to the spot and restored order. Street brawling .deyeloped in Berlin during the pfternopn where there was seribu's fi^htirig partisans of Hindenburg and Hitler. Party f actions also came into conflict in various towns, sevefal being woundedScores of -arrqsts were made. The 64,0*00 booths closed. at six o'clock. , i it is estimated that B5 per cent. of the electors voted. ^