GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1925, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

["Tim Times” Service.] N ON-P AI iT Y G 0 VEI! NM E NT. BERLIN, January ■!. Dr Marx lia.s accepted the invitation to form a non-party Government. ' CABINET FORMING DIFFICULTIES (Received ti is day at, 10.25 a.m.) BERLIN, Jan. L Though the Reichstag reassembles tomorrow the political deadlock continues. Dr .Marx. a fortnight ago abandoned the Conference with the Party Leaders with a view to tile formation of tile big coalition already mentioned. The main difficulty was tlie refusal of Dr Stresseninn’s People’s Party to further support Dr Marx’s minority Government and its in.xi.-t----anec ol the inclusion of Nationalists in tiie new Government. President Ebert asked T)r Strcssenianii to form a Cabinet, but tiie rei usal of the Centrists to co-operate with the Nationalists compelled Dr Stressemanii to decline. Dr Marx thereafter is credited with a determination not to waste more time in party bargaining, but to reorganise the Ministry. President Ebert, however, after tiie New Year lull urged Dr Marx to again get into touch witli the leaders of the Centre and Democratic People's Party, which Dr Marx did. with tiie result that lie announces it is impossible to form a Coalition Government commanding a majority in the Reichstag.