ELECTIONS IN EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 7

ELECTIONS IN EUROPE

—i —* STATE OF PARTIES IN FRANCE

EXTREME SOCIALISTS OVERWHELMED

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Pan's, November IS. The 518 elected deputies are composed as follow:—Left Republicans, II" (gaining 51 and losing 17 seats); Radicals 52 (gaining 20 and losing 2G scats); Radical Socialists, 71. (gaining Hand losing 75 seats); Republican Socialists, 21 (gaining 7 and losing 15 scats); Unified Socialists, "01 (gaining 7 and losing 50 seals); Dissentient Socialists, G (all gains); Progressive Republicans, VDi (gaining 78 and losing 5 scats); Libc-a! 7:1 (.gaining t!) and losing (j scats); Conservatives, 31 (gaining 12 and Jopug 12 seal?). Of 518 deputies ridded, .'127 are new men. This is tho outstanding fcalurc of Hie elections, for it signifies not merely a-transfer of seats from tho Republican Parties'to the Right, but a movement towards Ihe Right insido the Republican parties themselves. Al. Clemeiiceau, commenting on the sweeping majority of Ihe Nalionalisl-Ro-publican bloc; ,sid llio overwhelming of the extreme Socialists, said if was owing to their frank advocacy of Holslicvisin, and jocularly remarked, "How dull the Chamber will be without an Opposition." —Router. SOME INTERESTING NEW DEPUTIES. (Rec. November 21, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, November 18. Interesting personages figuring in the new Chamber of Deputies includ.' the Abbe Wetterle, a former Alsatian member of the Reichslag and a noted Francophile, the Abbe -Lemire, a fonusr Mayor of Hazebrnuek; Abbe HullcY, representing tho Lower Rhine. .Amongst tho most notable journalists defeated aiv to.u.. K'-inach and Gustavo Thierry.— "Tho Times." THE BELGIAN RESULTS CATHOLIC MAJOR IT r DISAPPEARING. Brussels, November 18. The Belgian elections passed in almost uncanny calm, Tho Catholic majority is disappearing, and tho Socialists havo gained enormously, at the expenso of the Catholics and Liberals. 11 is forecasted I hat. the new Chamber will consist of 79 Catholics, 3S Liberals, and 65 Socialists. The remaining four seats will be divided between Ihe front party and the combatant parly.—"Tho Times." , APATHY IN ITALY Rome, November 18. Little interest is being taken in tho elections. II: is 'believed that (he Socialists have only secured about ono hundred scats out: of five hundred and twenty-five. Supplementary elections in Trieste and Trcnti.no will bo liold later, as Ihe Austrian Treaty is not yet in operation — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.