POLLING RETURNS
SOLID VOTING ON RACIAL LINES GOVERNMENT GAINS IN CZECH AREAS. RIGHT WING LOSES HEAVILY. PRAGUE, May 23. Results of polling in 250 places show sweeping victories for the Nazis belonging .to Herr Henlein’s party in Sudetenland, while the Government parties gained heavily in the Czech areas. . Herr Henlein in 48 predominantly Sudeten towns obtained 75 to 95 per cent of the votes, representing an increase of 10 per cent, but the voting in the Czech districts shows that the people are solidly behind the moderate Left Coalition. The Czech right wing has lost heavily. The Sudetens form the strongest minority in the Czechoslovakian State, the relative percentages in the population of 14,479,565 at the last census (1930) being as follows: Czechs and Slovaks, 66.91 per cent; Sudeten Germans, 22.32 per cent; other minorities, 11.77 per cent. Under the head “other minorities” are included Carpathian Russians (of Polish association), Jews, Hungarians and Croatians. It may therefore be. said that the Sudetens number close to 3,500,000. These people of German stock and sympathies dwell in close proximity to the Czechoslovak-Ger-man frontier, and form more than 90 per cent of the population in these districts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 7
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194POLLING RETURNS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 7
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