GERMAN ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 220, 11 June 1920, Page 7

GERMAN ELECTIONS

COMPOSITION OF JNEW REICHSTAG 0 STRENGTH OF THE PARTIES lt COALITION OUTNUMBERED BY OPPOSITION [6 1is Telegraph-Preaß Aflßociatlon-Copyriffht '■ v ., Berlin, June 9. ' Tho 'new Reichstag consists of 400 ( 1 members, composed as follows: Social ff Democrats 110, Centre Party G7, Demo- ® crats <15, Christian Federalists 21, Gerr_ ivan Nationalists G5, German People's it Pnrty 01, Independent Socialists 80, 1. t-ommunists 21, Bavarian Peasants i, n Guelphs 5. The total poll was i. 25,719,000. if Herr Schlicke, Minister of Labour, i- FR? the only memfxr of Cabinet who „ failed to' get a 6eat.—Renter, n {Roc. Juno 10, p.m.) . Berlin, j"une 9. Iho nnal election figures show the position of parties to be: Centre Party, £ t>7 seats; Majority Socialists, 110; Democrats, 4G,. giving tho Coalition 223 seats out of 400. The largest of the other 0 parties are: Nationalists, 05 seatsa Popular Party, 61 j Indepondont Social- £ lets, 80.-Aus.-N-2. Cable Assn. PARTY LOSSES AND GAINS. e —, a (Rec. June 10, 8.20 p.m.) I! Berlin, June 9. J Th® results show the following election losses: Majority Socialists, 35 Seats; Democrats, 30; Centre, 4; and the following gains: Independent Socialists, '• 58) German People's Party. 39; German Nationalists, 23. Thus the Coalition, which numbered 326 in the old Assembly, has now only 223 members, whilo the Opposition, which formerly numbered 80, is now 238.—Router. MUELLER TOIORM CABINET " "MORE DIFFICULTIES FOR THE a ALLIES." J ~ . Paris, June 9. ' Advices from Berlin state that Herr Ebert (President) has requested Herr " Mueller to form a Cabinet. Tho Press 1 js unanimously of opinion that it willbu i I ™P o3S il ) l e to form a lasting- coalition. . The -'Tagoblatt" forecast an early <?is--1 solution of the new Kcichstag. Tho "MatinV' Berlin correspondent | says it is oxpectcd that Mueller, informing a Ministry, will first appeal for the support of the Independents. If this is refused ho will seek to seouro popular support. It adds: "The outlook is full of menace for Germany, and carries more difficulties for the Allies. The; formation I of a Government from the Moderate I parties is impracticable." "Lo Journal" questions whether, apart fro*, other obstacles, tho situation created by tho elections will allow the Spa Conference to be held on the date fixed for it. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assu. GROWTH OF "POPULAR" PARTY FINANCED BY WEALTHY WAR CONTRACTOR. (Reo. June 10, 8.5 p.m.) London, June 9. The "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent says a romantic feature of the elections is the growth of the so-called Popular Party, which is identical with the old National Liberals, raised and financed by Herr Hugo Stinner, who now controls 02 newspapers. Herr Stinner is far and away the wealthiest and most powerful German, and is probably worth a thousand million marks. He made enormous fortunes out of war contracts, and has been spending liberally to build up n,' new party on tho ruins of the National Liberals, who collapsed with the ,monarchy. ■ His namo is now in everybody's month. Some think he .is the great man whom Germany'is seeking as the saviour of the country. The Berlin newspaper "Freiheit" sti'tes that the German workers are bent on following a clear Socialistic policy, and never again will they be used as a tool by the bourgeois parties.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.