With only one more week dividing the country from the general elecs ind] tiang which are to supply the thin Piles actual dictatorship, the liamentary cover for Marshal
authorities are everywhere intensify ing the regime of terror by which they hope to break down the opposi~ tion in accordance with the openly given orders of the Premier.
After the Socialists, the German and) Ukrainian minorities form. the special objects of this official terrorism. Their election meetings are broken up everywhere by organised bool [ans whose'actions are tolerated by the police, their leaders are put and kept under arrest under the most flimsy pretexts and their newspapers suppressed, Yesterday a German printing plant in the city lof Posen was closed and sealed, to-Jday the last Ukrainian organ "Dilo" in Lemberg was suppressed for an indefinite period and its editor arrested. Furthermore, a raid wi ferried out through all the offic the Ukrainian movement in Warsaw-and the entire secretarial staff put under arrest, Two former Ukrainian deputies, Chrusckiy and Terszakoweez, shared their fate, Tt is estimated that the number of people belonging to the opposition parties who have so far been arrest ed and are being kept imprisoned without a definite charge already totals over 3,000, including former deputies, teachers, priests, journalists and others. The outcome of the Jelections can therefore be safely: predicted as bound to give the Pilsudski adherents a clear major ity which will enable the Marshal to preserve what he regards as a con Kuo Min,
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