TERROR PRELUDE TO POLISH ELECTIONS
Mearly 400 Peasant Party Canclidates Disposed Of WARSAW, Jan. 15. 'A Polish Go-vernment spokesman said Poland's reply to the United States Note alleging political arrests, murders and other repressive measures in connection with the forthcoming elections would probably be handed over this week. He added that Government bloc supporters might have ecmmitted isolated excesses but the "anti-democratic underground" was responsible for the "mass of terpor." Mr. Mikolajczyk stated that five prominent members of the Polish Peasant Party had died as a result of seeurity police and Government supporters beating and torturing them, says the American Press Warsaw correspondent. The police were beating newsboys and seizing copies of his newspaper, making mass arrests and confiscating Peasant Party election literature. The authorities had imprisoned 135 Peasant Party candidates and struck , 250 ofF the list. ' The last hope of free unfettered : elections went when the local electoral eommissions demanded that watchers at the polls bear letters of recommendation from county sheriffs : wfiom the Government blo'c con- ; trolleck
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 4
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169TERROR PRELUDE TO POLISH ELECTIONS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5303, 16 January 1947, Page 4
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