The Archive · 1938

National Democrats Eighty. People Seized; Apathy Over Elections

Warsaw, Nov. 6.

Police authorities arrested eighty members of the National Democratic Party at a meeting last night, it was revealed here today.

The building in which the meeting was held was then searched and arms were found. The arrests are described as "preventive," aiming to avoid trouble during the legislative elections taking place today.

This afternoon, the rush of voters to polling booths was much greater than that noticed this morning. Even so, however, the public's participation does not seem to have risen above 50 per cent, of what it could Towards the late afternoon, the radio station broadcast several successive appeals, telling the population exactly how long they still had before the booths were closed.—

Havas.

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