POLLING QUIET

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 5

POLLING QUIET

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VERY HEAVY VOTING

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BERLIN, Monday. j Brilliant sunshine favoured the poll- j ing, which apparently is the heaviest on record. The day passed quietly in ' Berlin in violent contrast to Satur- j day's many clashes, perhaps because 20,000 police were on duty in Berlin ; alone. Half the electors voted before one | o'clock, many sick being carried to the booths on stretchers. Herr von Papen voted in the morn- J ing at a tavern near the River Spree. i The President, Marshal Hindenburg j drove from his estate at Nuedeck, ( East Prussia and recorded his vote at . the village school. He was cheered by j the villagers. General Ludendorff did not vote. He ; instructed his small following to boy- j cott the election. It generally appears as'if the Nazi vote in the cities has declined com- ; pared with' the Prussian Diet election, but has increased compared with the j 1930 Reichstag election. In the coun- ' try districts the Nazis considerably ; improved their position. In the wofking class districts and i towns the red flag and the hammer i and sickle of the Communists outnumbered other emblems. The Socialist red flag with three arrows, was also much in evidence. The Socialists in many cases increased their votes as recorded at the j Prussian election. The Centre Party is about station- ■ ary, the Nazi gains being at the expense of the Smaller and Right Parties, who lost heavily. The returns at ten o'clock suggest j that the combined National-Nazi vote ; will'not give them a majority so the election is a bitter disappointment for nitler as the Centre Party will hold the balance.