GERMAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 7

GERMAN NATIONAL ELECTIONS

GOVERNMENT SOCIALISTS ON TOP MAY BE OUTNUMBERED BY A COALITION By Telegraph—Preaß Association—Copyright Copenhagen, January 21. Nearly -10,000,000 people voted in tlio German elections.- Conipleto returns are not available. % Tho polls in- Berlin and many of tlio provincial towns have been declared, and show that the Government Socialists are on top, even where victory was not expected. The independent Socialists sccured a lew. seats, but topped the poll only in Leipzig.' The Centre (Catholic) Party maintained a strong position in Bavaria, except in Munich, where the Government Socialists polled 150,000 and the Centre Party 80,000. ' Wurtemberg returned seven Government Socialists, four Centrists, four Democrats, two Citizen Peasant and two Independent Socialists. The elected members include Eichorn, Haase, Scheideman, and Erzberger. It is ex-, pected that tho Government Socialists will be the largest party in the Convention, but that they will be outnumbered by. a coalition of the Bourgeois parties—Aus.-I{.Z. Cable Asbii. ' ..Amsterdam, January 21... Hamburg, which the Spartacusians and Independent Socialists-regarded as their stronghold, returned seven Government Socialists, three Democrats, and one independent Socialist'. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. January 24, 11.50 p.m.) London, January 22. The German Majority Socialists' plurality in the National Assembly is 164. —Reuter. \ ELECTIONS MOSTLY- ORDERLY. V Amsterdam, January 21. The "Vorwaerts"' declares that the elections were mostly orderly, which is a good omen, proving tho people's determination to aTrive at a democratic regime. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SEARCH FOITLUXEMBURG'S BODY. . '' Amsterdam, January 21.' The, search for Rosa Luxemburg's body has been continuous, but unsuc-cessful.—Aus.j-N.Z. Cable-Assn.-. THE CONSTITUTION BILL ' PRUSSIA TO BE DIVIDED INTO REPUBLICS. Amsterdam, January 21; "Under the German Constitution Bill Prussia is to be divided into several republics, including tlio Republic of Berlin, having ten million inhabitants. The people will, clcct the Lower-Cham-ber.. on .the.-,basis of one deputy for each' million inhabitants.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assh.' " THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT BERLIN'S ADVANTAGES. London, January 21. A- Berlin Government wireless message states that the newspapers, discussing the place of meeting of tho National Assembly, point out that, 13erlin will afford' thq strongest milU tary protection. Removal from Berlin would be regarded unfavourably as a flight from the Spartacusians.—Aus.N.Z. Gable Assn. UHLANS TO. FIGHT THE POLES \ THEIR PATH BESTREWN AVITH i... FLOWERS. Amsterdam, January 21. A battalion of Uhlans marched through Berlin en route to fight the Poles. The Berliners threw flowers in their path.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.