GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1924, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

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REICHSTAG I AHI.K TO rkmort. (Received tliis clay at 9.45 a.rn.) LONDON. .May fi. The “Daily ( hroiiiclc’s” Iferlin eorrt'sjtoiicleiit states the- new Reichstag will have a majority of at least one hundred in favor or the Dawes lieport. The leaders also believe they can command a two-thirds majority which is necessary for the passing id' the change in the constitution concerning railway control. ■ GERMAN COMMENT. ilWeivcd this day at 9.45 a.in.) LONDON, .May (!. The Merlin correspondent of the “Times” says the Merlin press as awhole derives cold comfort from the result of the elections. Some Nationalist papers, however, are inclined to read the result as a warning to the Allies, especially Franco, that Germany, hacked by a strong Nationalist representation is in no mood to be trilled with.

The “Morsen /eitling” and the “Denteeh Allgemeine /pitting,” both think the elections have facilitated the formation of tin energetic bourgeois Government and that Germany will in future he represented with greater dignity in her dealings with foreigners which “is something that Frame must note as it means that Germany will no longer tolerate further attempts to experiment with her internal policy.”

GKM.MAN I{KPI.Y TO SOVIF.T. [Received this dav at 0.25 a.in.) MIC!! I.IN, May fi. The German reply to Kreestinski’s note does not accept the reproach with respect to the disregard of existing treaties or the illegality of the arrest of employees of the Soviet trade delegation.

increase; of communism EXP EXT FI).

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. May 7. The German elections resulted in marked progress by the Extremists with the collapse of the Centre Party and Social Democrats. The surprising Cotti- ' niunist gains are due to the reaction against Hitlerism. The Might demands the restoration of the .Monarchy and the rejection of the •Experts’ reports. The ICxtreme Might desires to tear up the Versailles Treaty. It is considered the result must ease the international sitiu-tion. hut it will increase Communism and necessitate a German concentrmion on internation-

al affairs. ft is expected the disunited Central parties will reunite, bill even it they succeed with the help of the Serial Democrats and the German Peoples Party in forming a new Cabinet, its life i.-, certain to he short.

WOMEN IN REICHSTAG. ("Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this dav at 1.2!) p.m.) BERLIN. May fi. Twenty three women were elected to the Reichstag, a majority of whom belong to the Left. A FRENCH YIE'.W. MARIS, May G. The E’oreign Office considers Germany nearer to a monarchy than at any lime since the signing of llie Treatv of Ycrsailles. I In* Ruhr and Rhineland voting disproves the eonten lion that the orrupatinmil policy i* (hiving Germany to a war ol revenge.

GERMAN ELECTIONS. BERLIN. Alhv C.. I l 'iii'tin')’ results <il tlic elections make llie situation eonl itsiuii. It is nou in no wise certain that the Socialists " itl lie the largest party in tile Reichstag. The German Nationals, already numberion; ninety-nine. will l robahly l.e ioined t, v nine or ten deputies of the so-called l.andhiiiid. the supporters of whom are ex-niemhers of the Gorman National I’any. [f so, the Nationals will he the largest parly and should the present Government resign. Ebert is hound to ask the German Nationals to form a ('invent ment. PAH IS. May *>• French oflieial eireles are pessimistic j-pjrj,i (linn the results of the Ciermav elections believing that the defeat of the middle parties and success ol the two extremes "ill render the reparations settlement more diHhult.